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say it: wawk
walk is a verb and noun meaning "use one's feet to advance; advance by steps". It is pronounced /ˈwɔk/ — wawk. It carries 17 recorded senses.
traverse or cover by walking
“Walk the tightrope”
“Paul walked the streets of Damascus”
“She walks 3 miles every day”
be or act in association with
“We must walk with our dispossessed brothers and sisters”
“Walk with God”
take a walk; go for a walk; walk for pleasure
“The lovers held hands while walking”
“We like to walk every Sunday”
the act of traveling by foot
“walking is a healthy form of exercise”
(baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls
“he worked the pitcher for a base on balls”
baseball
the act of walking somewhere
“he took a walk after lunch”
a slow gait of a horse in which two feet are always on the ground
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for walk come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.