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Ambulate vs Deambulate - What's the difference?

ambulate | deambulate |

As verbs the difference between ambulate and deambulate

is that ambulate is to walk; to relocate one's self under the power of one's own legs while deambulate is to go out walking.

ambulate

English

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To walk; to relocate one's self under the power of one's own legs.
    • Peter slowly ambulated to the bathroom, favoring his strained knee.

    Synonyms

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    Related terms

    * ambi- * amble * ambulance * ambulant * ambulator * ambulatory

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    deambulate

    English

    Verb

    (deambulat)
  • (obsolete) To go out walking.
    • (Cockeram)
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