motion
motion
nounDefinition of MOTION
the act or an instance of changing position <we were instructed not to make any sudden motions or we might scare away the deer>
Related Words dislocation, migration, relocation; locomotion, mobility, motility, motivity; fiddling, fidgeting, squirm, squirming, twitching, wriggling, writhing; flailing, flapping, waving
Near Antonyms immobility; inertia, inertness, stillness; cessation, discontinuance, ending, expiration, finish, halt, lapse, pause, shutdown, shutoff, stop, stoppage, surcease, termination
Antonyms motionlessness
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