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   rove

   /rəʊv/

   verb

   • 1. travel constantly without a fixed destination; wander: "he spent most of the 1990s roving about the Caribbean"
   • ▪ wander over or through (a place) without a fixed destination: "there are children roving the streets"
   • ▪ (of a person's eyes) look in changing directions in order to see something thoroughly: "the policeman's eyes roved around the pub"

   noun

   • 1. a journey, especially one with no specific destination; an act of wandering: North American "a new exhibit will electrify campuses on its national rove"

   Word Origin late 15th century (originally a term in archery in the sense ‘shoot at a casual mark of undetermined range’): perhaps from dialect rave ‘to stray’, probably of Scandinavian origin.

   Scrabble Points: 7

   • R

     1

   • O

     1

   • V

     4

   • E

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