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rambled

[ram-buhl]

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verb (used without object)

to wander around in a leisurely, aimless manner: They rambled through the shops until closing time.

to take a course with many turns or windings, as a stream or path.

to grow in a random, unsystematic fashion: The vine rambled over the walls and tree trunks.

to talk or write in a discursive, aimless way (usually followed by on): The speaker rambled on with anecdote after anecdote.

verb (used with object)

to walk aimlessly or idly over or through: They spent the spring afternoon rambling woodland paths.

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noun

a walk without a definite route, taken merely for pleasure.

Origin:
1610–20; origin uncertain

Synonyms
1. stroll, saunter, amble, stray, straggle. See roam.

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ramble

mid-15c., perhaps frequentative of romen "to walk, go" (see roam), perhaps via romblen (late 14c.) "to ramble." The vowel change probably by infl. of M.Du. rammelen, a derivative of rammen "copulate," "used of the night wanderings of the amorous cat" [Weekley]. Meaning "to

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talk or write incoherently" is from 1630s.

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"It was interesting, when awakened at midnight, to watch the grotesque and fiend-like forms and motions of some one of the party, who, not being able to sleep, had got up silently to arouse the fire.... Thus aroused, I, too, brought fresh fuel to the fire, and then rambled along the sandy shore in the moonlight, hoping to meet a moose come down to drink, or else a wolf. The little rill tinkled the louder, and peopled all the wilderness for me; and the glassy smoothness of the sleeping lake, laving the shores of a new world, with the dark, fantastic rocks rising here and there from its surface, made a scene not easily described. It has left such an impression of stern, yet gentle, wildness on my memory as will not be soon effaced.... When next we awoke, the moon and the stars were shining again, and there were signs of dawn in the east."

-Henry David Thoreau

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