ambulate
to walk or move from place to place
Root
- ambul: walk, move about, or wander
Other words with the ambul root
- amble: to walk at an easy pace
- ambulance: vehicle that carries sick or injured people
- ambulatory: able to walk; relating to walking or movement
- circumambulate: to walk around something
- perambulate: to walk through or around
- preamble: an introductory statement
- somnambulate: to walk while asleep
Ambul gives walk. Ambulate is the formal verb for walking or moving on foot.
After surgery, the patient was encouraged to ambulate slowly down the hallway.
Ambulate sounds clinical, but it simply means walk. It gives the clean root shape behind ambulance, perambulate, circumambulate, and somnambulist.