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Walking

of Walk

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Similar meaning 2

Close 84% connected

To stop, or fill up, as an opening; to shut; as, to close the eyes; to close a door.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Close 84% connected

To stop, or fill up, as an opening; to shut; as, to close the eyes; to close a door.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Narrower term 17

Ambulation 76% connected

The act of walking.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Gait 76% connected

A going; a walk; a march; a way.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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March 76% connected

The third month of the year, containing thirty-one days.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Marching 76% connected

of March

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Noctambulation 76% connected

Somnambulism; walking in sleep.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Plod 76% connected

To travel slowly but steadily; to trudge.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Plodding 76% connected

of Plod

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Prowl 76% connected

To rove over, through, or about in a stealthy manner; esp., to search in, as for prey or booty.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Shamble 76% connected

One of a succession of niches or platforms, one above another, to hold ore which is thrown successively from platform to platform, and thus raised to…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Shambling 76% connected

of Shamble

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Shuffle 76% connected

To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another; as, to shuffle money from hand to hand.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Shuffling 76% connected

of Shuffle

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Sleepwalking 76% connected

Walking in one's sleep.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Somnambulation 76% connected

The act of walking in sleep.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Somnambulism 76% connected

A condition of the nervous system in which an individual during sleep performs actions approppriate to the waking state; a state of sleep in which so…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Wading 76% connected

of Wade

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Broader term 2

Locomotion 76% connected

The act of moving from place to place.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Travel 76% connected

To labor; to travail.

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Derivationally related 2

Walk 74% connected

To move along on foot; to advance by steps; to go on at a moderate pace; specifically, of two-legged creatures, to proceed at a slower or faster rate…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Walk 74% connected

To move along on foot; to advance by steps; to go on at a moderate pace; specifically, of two-legged creatures, to proceed at a slower or faster rate…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Component part 3

Pace 70% connected

A single movement from one foot to the other in walking; a step.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Stride 70% connected

To walk with long steps, especially in a measured or pompous manner.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Tread 70% connected

To set the foot; to step.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Synonym 1

Walk 92% connected

To move along on foot; to advance by steps; to go on at a moderate pace; specifically, of two-legged creatures, to proceed at a slower or faster rate…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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