Walk

Quick meaning: Walk is a verb meaning (intransitive, colloquial, law) To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.

Meaning

(intransitive, colloquial, law) To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
2. (transitive) To travel (a distance) by walking.
3. (transitive) To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
4. (transitive, baseball) To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
5. (intransitive, baseball, of a batter) To reach base by being pitched four balls.
6. (intransitive) To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times. Compare run.
7. (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side appeals and before the umpire has ruled; done as a matter of sportsmanship when the batsman believes he is out.

Example Sentences

I walk the dog every morning.

I walk two miles to school every day.

The museum’s not far from here – you can walk it.

To walk briskly for an hour every day is to keep fit.

Word Forms

• walks
• walking
• walked
• walkest
• walkedst
• walketh
• walke

Synonyms for walk

Depending on context, synonyms include be, full, waulk, ambulate, pedestrianize, raik.

Antonyms for walk

Common opposites include run, ride.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include walkway, pass, paseo, step, gait, afoot.

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