Verb
To go out walking; to stroll.
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From this place we deambulate through several agreeable walks, among which Stepney Green is not the least interesting;
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In the most populous thoroughfare of the last-named city, one may deambulate amid the fragrance of lilies, roses, and violets; and from the fascinating importunities of their graceful vendors, he may turn his eyes to the numerous statues which adorn the Piazza del Gran Duca.
—it was the time when the citizens of every single town pour into the streets and deambulate slowly for a couple of hours in a dense and complicated ebb and flow.
I fell into a hall of resounding spaces and now I deambulate, stuck in the locked grooves of some recurring memories, getting over my damnatio memoriae of a city.
His young slaves and the wives of the officers who were attached to his service put on the vestments of mourning and deambulated in the streets in the company of professional mourners who celebrated his funerary oration.
Gabus designed and specified the vitrines for the FEMAN, which were constructed in Zurich and shipped and assembled in Dakar. Lit from within, standing tall in the space, they offered a place from which African citizens could deambulate around objects that had always in some sense looked at them from the other side of the vitrine, aptly witnessed from the gallery above.
To walk independently, especially in contrast to a state where one is physically unable to walk.
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In classic testicular torsion, the patient presents with severe pain and usually cannot deambulate easily.
Runway: the ability of the animal to deambulate over a plane or inclined surface was examined.
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Most patients with CLI [critical limb ischemia] have a tremendous disease burden with poor baseline function, including loss of ability to deambulate and ability to live independently in an abbreviated survival.
Figure 83.4 (a) Ischiopagus tetrapus (four legs) twins. […] (d) Patients at the age of 12: they deambulate normally and enjoy relatively normal lives.