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perambulate::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | walk about, walk around |
| Type of | walk |
| Derivation | amble, perambulation |
perambulate::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | inspect |
| Derivation | perambulation |
Selectmen are required by law to perambulate the bounds every five years.
Examples of perambulate
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Then again, I'm positively balmy myself, so I was prepared to perambulate with a pack of pinniped pals.
From the sacbee.com
Unlike many Chinese cities that appear to have forgotten that people occasionally like to perambulate, Shanghai is made for walking.
From the time.com
Another day this Assange person would be pleased with something we'd done, or would perambulate about the life he was living in Nairobi.
From the guardian.co.uk
If you need the big screen, for whatever reason, and you intend to perambulate within the closed garden of Amazon content and PDFs, this tablet is for you.
From the techcrunch.com
To adapt them to thought control, a group of able-bodied people will first don the cap and perambulate in the legs around a laboratory, to refine the process.
From the economist.com
Everywhere had made an effort for the forthcoming festivities and it was a pleasure just to perambulate up and down the steepish main street, or along the seafront promenade and gardens above.
From the thisisbristol.co.uk
- Make an official inspection on foot of (the bounds of a property); "Selectmen are required by law to perambulate the bounds every five years"
- Walk with no particular goal; "we were walking around in the garden"; "after breakfast, she walked about in the park"
- (perambulating) strolling or walking around; "perambulating nursemaids with their charges"
- (perambulation) a walk around a territory (a parish or manor or forest etc.) in order to officially assert and record its boundaries
- (perambulation) amble: a leisurely walk (usually in some public place)
- To walk about, roam or stroll; To inspect (an area) on foot
- (Perambulation) Beating the bounds: the district within which a person had the right of inspection - the established boundaries being usually walked round annually.
- (Perambulation) Delimitation of the Forest by metes and bounds. Undertaken by walking/riding but sometimes by consultation, enquiry and perusal of documents. ...
- Although often used as a synonym for "saunter," to perambulate is simply to ambulate in a circle. What's the point of that? See: AMBULATE.
