walkwalk1 /wɔk/ ●●● verb 
1[intransitive, transitive] to move forward by putting one foot in front of the other: 
We must have walked ten miles. Do you walk to work? Lori walked into his office. We spent the afternoon walking around the downtown area.THESAURUSmarch – to walk like soldiers, with regular stepsstride – to walk with long steps in a determined waystroll – to walk in a relaxed way, especially for pleasureamble – to walk slowly in a relaxed waytrudge – to walk in a tired way or when it is difficult to continue walkinglimp – to walk with difficulty because one leg or foot is hurtwade – to walk through waterhike – to take a long walk in the country, mountains, etc.► see thesaurus at run1, travel12[transitive] to walk through or across a particular area: It’s not safe to walk the streets at night. He spent two years walking the Baja coastline.3[transitive] to walk somewhere with someone: It’s late – I’ll walk you home.4walk the dog to take a dog outside to walk5walk all over somebody informal to treat someone very badly: She lets those kids walk all over her.6[intransitive] also walk free informal to leave a court of law without being punished or sent to prison7walk the walk informal to do the things that a particular type of person is expected to do: She doesn’t call herself a feminist, but she walks the walk.walk away phrasal verb to leave a bad or difficult situation: You can’t just walk away from eight years of marriage!walk away with phrasal verb to win something easily: Bradley won, walking away with $50,000.walk in on phrasal verb to go into a place and accidentally interrupt someone whom you did not expect to be therewalk into phrasal verb1to hit an object accidentally as you are walking: She walked straight/right into a tree.2to become involved in an unpleasant situation without intending to: The soldiers walked into an ambush.3to do something that makes you seem stupid: You walked straight into that one!walk off phrasal verb to leave someone by walking away from him/herwalk off with phrasal verb to steal something, or to take something by mistake: Someone walked off with my new jacket!walk out phrasal verb1to stop working or leave a situation as a protest: Most miners have walked out.2to leave your husband, wife, etc. suddenly: Mary just walked out on him one day.
1[intransitive, transitive] to move forward by putting one foot in front of the other: We must have walked ten miles. Do you walk to work? Lori walked into his office. We spent the afternoon walking around the downtown area.THESAURUSmarch – to walk like soldiers, with regular stepsstride – to walk with long steps in a determined waystroll – to walk in a relaxed way, especially for pleasureamble – to walk slowly in a relaxed waytrudge – to walk in a tired way or when it is difficult to continue walkinglimp – to walk with difficulty because one leg or foot is hurtwade – to walk through waterhike – to take a long walk in the country, mountains, etc.► see thesaurus at run1, travel12[transitive] to walk through or across a particular area: It’s not safe to walk the streets at night. He spent two years walking the Baja coastline.3[transitive] to walk somewhere with someone: It’s late – I’ll walk you home.4walk the dog to take a dog outside to walk5walk all over somebody informal to treat someone very badly: She lets those kids walk all over her.6[intransitive] also walk free informal to leave a court of law without being punished or sent to prison7walk the walk informal to do the things that a particular type of person is expected to do: She doesn’t call herself a feminist, but she walks the walk.walk away phrasal verb to leave a bad or difficult situation: You can’t just walk away from eight years of marriage!walk away with phrasal verb to win something easily: Bradley won, walking away with $50,000.walk in on phrasal verb to go into a place and accidentally interrupt someone whom you did not expect to be therewalk into phrasal verb1to hit an object accidentally as you are walking: She walked straight/right into a tree.2to become involved in an unpleasant situation without intending to: The soldiers walked into an ambush.3to do something that makes you seem stupid: You walked straight into that one!walk off phrasal verb to leave someone by walking away from him/herwalk off with phrasal verb to steal something, or to take something by mistake: Someone walked off with my new jacket!walk out phrasal verb1to stop working or leave a situation as a protest: Most miners have walked out.2to leave your husband, wife, etc. suddenly: Mary just walked out on him one day.
