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amble

[am-buhl]

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verb (used without object)

to go at a slow, easy pace; stroll; saunter: He ambled around the town.

(of a horse) to go at a slow pace with the legs moving in lateral pairs and usually having a four-beat rhythm.

noun

an ambling gait.

a slow, easy walk or gentle pace.

a stroll.

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Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Middle French ambler < Latin ambulāre to walk, equivalent to amb- ambi- + -ulāre to step (*-el- + stem vowel -ā-; cognate with Welsh el- may go, Greek elaúnein to set in motion)

Related forms

am·bler, noun

am·bling·ly, adverb

Synonyms
1. ramble, meander.

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Example Sentences

If you don't want to amble in there to review the specials, your waitress will recite them for you.

Office workers, families and schoolchildren amble past.

We amble down to the long wooden dock that juts out into the blue bay.

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If you don't want to amble in there to review the specials, your waitress will recite them for you.

Office workers, families and schoolchildren amble past.

We amble down to the long wooden dock that juts out into the blue bay.

Comfortable handgrips and well-balanced proportions make it easy to aim as you amble.

He was still running, but his run was fast becoming an amble.

Amble about art booths and listen to local musicians perform.

These towns are places to amble in window-shop, eat, then window-shop some more before maybe eating something else.

We leave and amble down streets so laden with murals and sculptures that they appear to be museums turned inside out.

Old men lazily amble through piazzas while motorcycles maniacally, sometimes miraculously, swerve around them.

Stretch in your seat, breathe deeply, and amble up and down the aisle.

Whatever possessed these three actors to amble through such a dinky prairie oyster stumps us.

They sit around and stare at the walls or, if the weather is nice, they amble to the park.

They aren't the ones who tend to place each oversized foot methodically in front of the other in a slow amble across.

Soon enough, the others join in the spherical amble.

Museumgoers and market shoppers amble through charming streets and locals relax in celebrated spas.

The animal's only reaction was to slowly turn and amble across the roadway.

Most of the time, two high school students amble around a.

Amble along the boardwalk or bring along lunch to eat at one of the park's many picnic tables.

Carroll's household of two scurrilous relatives and airily amble back to confinement.

Septuagenarians in shorts amble fearlessly between busy intersections.

Breslin would amble in after trudging forlornly through some public housing.

He would amble into the estate's former tasting room and greet visitors.

His three-to-six-step amble between pitches helped pile on the.

Giraffes amble right over to you to snack on peanut pellets from your hand.

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World English Dictionary

amble (ˈæmb^əl)

—vb
1.	to walk at a leisurely relaxed pace
2.	(of a horse) to move slowly, lifting both legs on one side together
3.	to ride a horse at an amble or leisurely pace

—n
4.	a leisurely motion in walking
5.	a leisurely walk
6.	the ambling gait of a horse

[C14: from Old French ambler, from Latin ambulāre to walk]

'ambler

—n

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Word Origin & History

amble

late 14c., from O.Fr. ambler "walk as a horse does," from L. ambulare "to walk, to go about," a compound of ambi- "around" (see ambi-) and -ulare, from PIE base *el- "to go." Until 1590s used only of horses or persons on horseback.

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