Perambulate \Per*am"bu*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Perambulated; p. pr. & vb. n. Perambulating.] [L.
perambulatus, p. p. of perambulare to perambulate; per
through + ambulare to walk. See Per-, and Amble.]
To walk through or over; especially, to travel over for the
purpose of surveying or examining; to inspect by traversing;
specifically, to inspect officially the boundaries of, as of
a town or parish, by walking over the whole line.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Perambulate \Per*am"bu*late\, v. i.
To walk about; to ramble; to stroll; as, he perambulated in
the park.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
perambulate
v 1: make an official inspection on foot of (the bounds of a
property); "Selectmen are required by law to perambulate
the bounds every five years"
2: walk with no particular goal; "we were walking around in the
garden"; "after breakfast, she walked about in the park"
[syn: walk about, walk around]
WordNet (r) 2.0
51 Moby Thesaurus words for "perambulate":
ambulate, ankle, circumambulate, course, cover, do, foot, foot it,
go over, hoof it, jaywalk, jog on, leg, leg it, measure, overpass,
pace, pad, parade, pass over, pass through, patrol, pedestrianize,
peregrinate, pererrate, peripateticate, ply, promenade, range,
range over, reconnoiter, scour, scour the country, scout,
shuffle along, step, stretch the legs, stride, stump it, sweep,
take a stretch, take a walk, track, traipse, transit, travel over,
travel through, traverse, tread, voyage, walk
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
walk about, walk around
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