walk around

verb

1. walk with no particular goal (Freq. 6)

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we were walking around in the garden

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after breakfast, she walked about in the park

• Syn: ↑perambulate, ↑walk about

• Derivationally related forms: ↑walkabout (for: ↑walk about), ↑perambulation (for: ↑perambulate), ↑amble (for: ↑perambulate)

• Hypernyms: ↑walk

• Verb Frames:

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Somebody ——s PP

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Sam and Sue walk around

2. walk around something (Freq. 3)

• Syn: ↑circumambulate

• Hypernyms: ↑circle

• Verb Frames:

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Somebody ——s something

3. behave in a certain manner or have certain properties

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He walks around with his nose in the air

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She walks around with this strange boyfriend

• Hypernyms:

↑behave, ↑acquit, ↑bear, ↑deport, ↑conduct, ↑comport, ↑carry

• Verb Frames:

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Somebody ——s PP

4. walk randomly

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We were walking around in the neighborhood to see whether we could find an open drugstore

• Hypernyms: ↑act

• Verb Frames:

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Somebody ——s

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phrasal

1. : to consider from many different points of view

we walked around the problem for two hours — H.J.Laski

2. : to treat with caution

critics walk around it gently — J.C.Trewin

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ˌwalk a ˈround [intransitive] [present tense I/you/we/they walk around he/she/it walks around present participle walking around past tense walked around past participle walked around] informal phrasal verb

to dress or behave in public in a particular way, especially when this makes you look or seem silly

I can’t walk around with my hair like this.

You’re not walking around in that hat?

Thesaurus: to behave in a particular way_synonym

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