ambulate

From Latin ambulatus, past participle of ambulō (“I walk, go about”). Doublet of amble.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈæm.bjʊ.leɪt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈæm.bjuˌleɪt/, /ˈæm.bjəˌleɪt/, /ˈæm.bjəˌleɪt/

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• Rhymes: -æmbjʊleɪt
• Hyphenation: som‧nam‧bu‧late

ambulate (third-person singular simple present ambulates, present participle ambulating, simple past and past participle ambulated)

1. (intransitive) To walk; to relocate oneself under the power of one's own legs.

   Peter slowly ambulated to the bathroom, favoring his strained knee.

See Thesaurus:walk

• ambi-
• amble
• ambulance
• ambulant
• ambulation
• ambulator
• ambulatory
• somnambulate
• funambulate
• circumambulate

• “ambulate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “ambulate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

ambulāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ambulō

ambulāte

1. vocative masculine singular of ambulātus

ambulate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of ambular combined with te