diff --git a/src/fasttext.cc b/src/fasttext.cc
index 43f53be..454dab2 100644
--- a/src/fasttext.cc
+++ b/src/fasttext.cc
@@ -749,7 +749,7 @@ std::shared_ptr<Matrix> FastText::getInputMatrixFromFile(
   for (size_t i = 0; i < n; i++) {
     std::string word;
     in >> word;
-    words.push_back(std::move(word));
+    words.push_back(word);
     dict_->add(word);
     for (size_t j = 0; j < dim; j++) {
       in >> mat.at(i, j);