perambulate

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Come and perambulate, "he suggested.

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  1. transitive verb To walk through.
  2. transitive verb To inspect (an area) on foot.
  3. intransitive verb To walk about; roam or stroll.

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  • How well could such a rudimentary construction perambulate, after all?
  • But, at present, the whole interior of the Cathedral is smeared over with a yellowish wash, the very meanest hue imaginable, and for which somebody's soul has a bitter reckoning to undergo In the centre of the grassy quadrangle about which the cloisters perambulate is a small, mean, brick building, with a locked door. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862
  • We soon stopped before a stone door, and it opened without touching Here's damp powder, and no fire to dry it,’ shouts I, stopping What's the matter; do you not wish to perambulate through my possessions This hoss doesn't savey what the human for perambulate is, but I'll walk plum to the hottest fire in your settlement, if that's all you mean The place was hot, and smelt of brimstone; but the darned screeching took me. —  The Great Salt Lake Trail
  • Come and perambulate, "he suggested. —  The Indifference of Juliet
  • But still we wont these paths perambulate, —  The Minstrel A Collection of Poems
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Latin perambulāre, perambulāt- : per-, per- + ambulāre, to walk; see ambhi in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin perambulatus, past participle of perambulare, traverse, go through, from per, through, + ambulare, go about, walk: see amble, ambulate.
 

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/pərˈæmbjuleɪt/
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