motive
/ˈmoʊtɪv/ verb C2- To prompt or incite by a motive or motives; to move.
He/she/it motives · Past motived · Past participle motived · -ing form motiving
Verb forms
- Base form
- motive
- He/she/it
- motives
- Past
- motived
- Past participle
- motived
- -ing form
- motiving
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Probably some wise, inscrutable motive was to be served thereby.
But she had another and nobler motive for wishing to do well.
The distance is nothing, when one has a motive; only three miles.
“But what,” said she, after a pause, “can have been his motive?
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