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squirm vs movement

movement vs squirm

squirm and movement both are nouns.

squirm is a verb but movement is not a verb.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
squirm Yes No Yes No
movement Yes No No No
As nouns, movement is a hypernym of squirm; that is, movement is a word with a broader meaning than squirm:
  • squirm: the act of wiggling
  • movement: a change of position that does not entail a change of location
Other hypernyms of squirm include motility, motion, move.
squirm (noun) movement (noun)
the act of wiggling a change of position that does not entail a change of location
the act of changing the location of something
a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
the act of changing location from one place to another
the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock)
a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata
a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals
an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object
a euphemism for defecation
squirm (verb) movement (verb)
to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)
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