Wend vs Stroll - What's the difference?
wend | stroll |
(obsolete) To turn; change.
To direct (one's way or course); pursue one's way; proceed upon some course or way.
* Surrey
(obsolete) To turn; make a turn; go round; veer.
(obsolete) To pass away; disappear; depart; vanish.
(obsolete, UK, legal) A large extent of ground; a perambulation; a circuit.
To wander on foot; to ramble idly or leisurely; to rove.
*(Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
*:These mothers stroll to beg sustenance for their helpless infants.
*, chapter=7
, title= To go somewhere with ease.
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*:His sister, Mrs. Gerard, stood there in carriage gown and sables, radiant with surprise. ¶ “Phil?! You?! Exactly like you, Philip, to come strolling in from the antipodes—dear fellow?!” recovering from the fraternal embrace and holding both lapels of his coat in her gloved hands.
As verbs the difference between wend and stroll
is that wend is to turn; change while stroll is to wander on foot; to ramble idly or leisurely; to rove.As nouns the difference between wend and stroll
is that wend is a large extent of ground; a perambulation; a circuit while stroll is a wandering on foot; an idle and leisurely walk; a ramble.wend
English
Verb
- We wended our weary way westward.
- Great voyages to wend .
- (Sir Walter Raleigh)
Usage notes
The modern past tense of (m) is (m). Originally it was (m), similarly to pairs such as (m)/(m), (m)/(m), (m)/(m), (m)/(m), or (m)/(m). However, (m) was long ago co-opted as the past tense of (m) (replacing (etyl) (m)) and using it as the past tense of (m) is now considered archaic.Synonyms
* to betake oneselfNoun
(en noun)- (Burrill)
References
* ----stroll
English
Verb
(en verb)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. […] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.}}
