MEANING
To walk through or around a place, especially in formal or playful diction.
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Words that belong together
- perambulate a district
- perambulate through town
On the page
The narrator perambulated the district before describing its inhabitants.
She perambulated through town while the official party waited.
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Word forms
- Base
- perambulate
- Past tense
- perambulated
- Past participle
- perambulated
- Present participle
- perambulating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- perambulate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are perambulating
- Present perfect
- have/has perambulated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been perambulating
- Past
- perambulated
- Past continuous
- was/were perambulating
- Past perfect
- had perambulated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been perambulating
- Future
- will perambulate
- Future continuous
- will be perambulating
- Future perfect
- will have perambulated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been perambulating
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Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: perambulate; perambulates; perambulated; perambulated; perambulating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: perambulates.
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