What does perambulate mean?
Perambulate means (intransitive) To walk about, roam or stroll; to ambulate..
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/pəɹˈæmbjʊˌleɪt/ · verb
(intransitive) To walk about, roam or stroll; to ambulate..
Take, for instance, one of the most wretched classes of the community, the poor fellows who perambulate the streets as Sandwich Men. These are farmed out by certain firms.
They dragged themselves from the swamp singly, and in twos and threes, more dead than alive, mere perambulating skeletons, until at last there were thirty of us.
The officials, in their gowns of grey, with a white St. Andrew’s cross on back and breast, and a white cloth carried before them on a staff, perambulated the city, adding the terror of man’s justice to the fear of God’s visitation.
Use perambulate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Perambulate means (intransitive) To walk about, roam or stroll; to ambulate..
Common synonyms include walk around, walk about.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Take, for instance, one of the most wretched classes of the community, the poor fellows who perambulate the streets as Sandwich Men. These are farmed out by certain firms.
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