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perambulates

perambulates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of perambulate.

Meaning of perambulate

Verb

perambulate (third-person singular simple present perambulates, present participle perambulating, simple past and past participle perambulated)

  1. (intransitive) To walk around, roam, or stroll.
    • Near-synonym: ambulate (sometimes synonymous)
    Synonyms:
    ambulate
  2. (transitive) To inspect (an area) on foot.
    • 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.1903, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter IV, in Edinburgh

Questions about perambulates

What is perambulates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Perambulates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of perambulate.

Words near perambulates in the dictionary

  1. perambles
  2. perambling
  3. perambulant
  4. perambulate
  5. perambulated
  6. perambulates
  7. perambulating
  8. perambulation
  9. perambulations
  10. perambulative
  11. perambulatives

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