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ambled

[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

Four small boys ambled up a muddy and pothole-ridden sidewalk and entered a tea stall on the city's main street.

Then, the cattle ambled away with the good guys in hot pursuit on horseback.

He ambled along, looking at flowers, and was in no hurry to complete our plan.

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Four small boys ambled up a muddy and pothole-ridden sidewalk and entered a tea stall on the city's main street.

Then, the cattle ambled away with the good guys in hot pursuit on horseback.

He ambled along, looking at flowers, and was in no hurry to complete our plan.

After a few wobbly steps, she ambled off to join the herd.

They licked each other's faces and ambled languorously into the bush.

Some ambled through the decade rather than sprinted.

When it got too dark to shoot, he got up and ambled down the river again.

The speed of her reactions left even a police officer trailing as he ambled over to sort out the melee.

They ambled all through the clearing where the cabins are, blocking the paths and nibbling at whatever looked good to them.

It came after intermission, when the musicians ambled out and began playing seemingly spontaneously.

Cinnamon-hued cattle and elderly women wearing ikat sarongs and checkered scarves ambled along the dusty road outside.

Bloomberg ambled away from his security detail into a protest to shake hands with those who came to yell at himThe.

Indians on ponies ambled slowly about a tepee on a.

Local people ambled over-kindly folk who don't lock their doors or their pickups, and treat strangers with perfect courtesy.

Bundled up toward off an early blast of winter, scholars and students ambled about the.

Seeing no more doors, you may have given up in a state of dining bliss and ambled off, nodding to the.

She started out with an opera, slid into something jazzy and then ambled into a land of soulful notes.

Helfgott as he ambled to the stage, shaking hands and hugging strangers along the way.

Somberly dressed churchgoers, not skiers, ambled through the streets.

He took long steps toward stage right, scurried down a ramp and ambled down an aisle on the arena floor, playing all the way.

He ambled through the store and settled onto the back porch, a bucolic spot overlooking a creek.

Later, as the big man ambled into the night, he hoped for a new longest.

He was surrounded by a gathering of animals, rendered in ghostly white outlines, which ambled onto the dark backdrop.

He developed a strong interest in mathematics as a child but ambled into a career in statistics haphazardly.

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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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"The skipping King, he ambled up and down,
With shallow jesters and rash bavin wits,
Soon kindled and soon burnt, carded his state,
Mingled his royalty with cap'ring fools."

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