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deambulating

deambulating is the present participle and gerund of deambulate.

Meaning of deambulate

Verb

deambulate (third-person singular simple present deambulates, present participle deambulating, simple past and past participle deambulated)

  1. (rare) To go out walking; to stroll.
    • From this place we deambulate through several agreeable walks, among which Stepney Green is not the least interesting;1815, Encyclopaedia Londinensis, Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, page 450
  2. To walk independently, especially in contrast to a state where one is physically unable to walk.
    • In classic testicular torsion, the patient presents with severe pain and usually cannot deambulate easily.2011, Giuseppe Ocelle, Andrea Lissiani, Carlo Trombetta, “Acute Scrotal Pain: Management”, in Michele Bertolotto, Carlo Trombetta, editors, Scrotal Pathology, page 92

Questions about deambulating

What is deambulating the present participle and gerund of?
Deambulating is the present participle and gerund of deambulate.

Words near deambulating in the dictionary

  1. dealy
  2. Dealys
  3. deambulate
  4. deambulated
  5. deambulates
  6. deambulating
  7. deambulation
  8. deambulatories
  9. deambulatory
  10. deamidase
  11. deamidases

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