Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to perambulate
Participle: perambulated
Gerund: perambulating
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | perambulate |
| you | perambulate |
| he;she;it | perambulates |
| we | perambulate |
| you | perambulate |
| they | perambulate |
Perfect
| I | have perambulated |
| you | have perambulated |
| he;she;it | has perambulated |
| we | have perambulated |
| you | have perambulated |
| they | have perambulated |
Past
| I | perambulated |
| you | perambulated |
| he;she;it | perambulated |
| we | perambulated |
| you | perambulated |
| they | perambulated |
Pluperfect
| I | had perambulated |
| you | had perambulated |
| he;she;it | had perambulated |
| we | had perambulated |
| you | had perambulated |
| they | had perambulated |
Future
| I | will perambulate |
| you | will perambulate |
| he;she;it | will perambulate |
| we | will perambulate |
| you | will perambulate |
| they | will perambulate |
Future Perfect
| I | will have perambulated |
| you | will have perambulated |
| he;she;it | will have perambulated |
| we | will have perambulated |
| you | will have perambulated |
| they | will have perambulated |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | perambulate |
| you | perambulate |
| he;she;it | perambulate |
| we | perambulate |
| you | perambulate |
| they | perambulate |
Perfect
| I | have perambulated |
| you | have perambulated |
| he;she;it | have perambulated |
| we | have perambulated |
| you | have perambulated |
| they | have perambulated |
Imperfect
| I | perambulated |
| you | perambulated |
| he;she;it | perambulated |
| we | perambulated |
| you | perambulated |
| they | perambulated |
Pluperfect
| I | had perambulated |
| you | had perambulated |
| he;she;it | had perambulated |
| we | had perambulated |
| you | had perambulated |
| they | had perambulated |
Conditional
Present
| I | would perambulate |
| you | would perambulate |
| he;she;it | would perambulate |
| we | would perambulate |
| you | would perambulate |
| they | would perambulate |
Perfect
| I | would have perambulated |
| you | would have perambulated |
| he;she;it | would have perambulated |
| we | would have perambulated |
| you | would have perambulated |
| they | would have perambulated |
Imperative
| you | perambulate |
| we | Let's perambulate |
| you | perambulate |
Verbs conjugated like 'perambulate'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'perambulate'
deambulate,
preambulate,
reambulate,
ambulate,
funambulate,
obambulate,
permutate,
decannulate,
decapsulate,
decumulate,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1568, from L.
perambulatus, pp. of
perambulare "to walk through, go through," from
per- "through" +
ambulare "to walk."
Perambulator "one who perambulates" is first recorded 1611; sense of "baby carriage" is first recorded 1856; often colloquially shortened to
pram.
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Indo-European *per-der.
4. Proto-Italic *peri-
5. Latin per-
6. Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-
7. Proto-Indo-European *-s
8. Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts?
9. Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰíder.
10. Proto-Italic *amβi-
11. Latin ambi-
12. Proto-Indo-European *h₂elh₂-der.
13. Proto-Italic *alō
14. Latin *alō
15. Latin ambulō
16. Latin perambulō
17. Latin perambulātusbor.
18. English perambulate
19. Borrowed from Latin perambulō, perambulātus. Equivalent to per- + ambulate. See: Latin '
perambulo'.
Sample Sentences
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Near-synonym: ambulate (sometimes synonymous)
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Take, for instance, one of the most wretched classes of the community, the poor fellows who perambulate the streets as Sandwich Men. These are farmed out by certain firms. [1890, William Booth, “The regimentation of the unemployed”, in In Darkest England and the Way Out:]
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They dragged themselves from the swamp singly, and in twos and threes, more dead than alive, mere perambulating skeletons, until at last there were thirty of us. [1906, Jack London, chapter XVIII, in Before Adam:]
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The officials, in their gowns of grey, with a white St. Andrew’s cross on back and breast, and a white cloth carried before them on a staff, perambulated the city, adding the terror of man’s justice to the fear of God’s visitation. [1903, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter IV, in Edinburgh:]