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🚶 To walk around 🗺️ To inspect on foot
to perambulate

to perambulate

9.9
To walk the edges of land to check property lines
  • verb
  • /pəˈræmbjʊˌleɪt/
  • UK
: inspeccionar
  • After they perambulated the estate, they recorded the exact positions of the stone markers.

Examples

  • The council officially perambulates the village boundaries each spring to check for encroachments.

  • The surveyor perambulated the property line carefully.

  • According to tradition, landowners must perambulate their property lines every few years.

  • We will perambulate the estate tomorrow.

  • Each spring, the officials perambulate the historical property to ensure its boundaries are preserved.

  • Before the new construction began, the developers had to perambulate the land to confirm the property lines.

  • Landowners often perambulate their boundaries to prevent disputes with neighboring properties.

Antonyms

to ignore
∞ 1.0

Choose not to pay attention to someone or something

to neglect
256 3.8

Fail to care for someone or something you should look after

How Official

to perambulate
  • UK
9.9
to inspect
202 2.5
to survey
83 3.2

Surface Forms

perambulate infinitive
perambulated past
perambulated past participle
perambulating present participle
perambulates third person singular

Morphology

perambulate = ambulate (opaque) = per + ambulate

Although morphologically analyzable, the specialized legal/formal sense 'to make an official inspection on foot' is not predictable from simply 'per-' + 'ambulate' for an average learner.

Etymology

Perambulate comes from Latin parts per- 'through' and ambulare 'to walk', which is also the root of amble. Long ago, landowners would walk 'through' the edges of their land to check the lines. So, in a formal sense to perambulate means to go round a property on foot and inspect its boundaries.