wander+about

  • 21wander — Synonyms and related words: amble, babble, bat, bat around, be absent, be in error, be insane, be mistaken, be wrong, boom, bum, circumambulate, count ties, daydream, depart, deviate, digress, divagate, diverge, dote, dream, drift, drivel, drool …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 22wander — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. rove, ramble, stroll, walk, range; digress, swerve, deviate, stray; rave, maunder, be delirious; moon; straggle, forage. See travel, deviation, insanity, motion. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To stroll]… …

    English dictionary for students

  • 23kick about — wander about aimlessly, loiter …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 24roam about the country — wander about the nation, go from place to place in the country …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 25wander — v. n. 1. Ramble, roam, rove, stroll, range, range about, gad about, straggle. 2. Deviate, swerve, stray, digress, turn aside, go astray, straggle. 3. Be delirious, be crazed, rave, ramble …

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  • 26wander — v 1. stray, roam, ramble, rove, meander, straggle; range, nomadize, drift, live like a gypsy; stroll, amble, Inf. mosey, saunter, prowl, Sl. mooch; peregrinate, travel about, traverse, itinerate. 2. deviate, go off course, swerve, veer, sheer, go …

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  • 27wander — wan•der [[t]ˈwɒn dər[/t]] v. i. 1) to ramble without a definite purpose or objective; roam 2) to go aimlessly or indirectly; meander: The river wanders among the rocks[/ex] 3) to extend in an irregular course or direction: Foothills wandered off… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 28To knock about — Knock Knock (n[o^]k), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Knocked} (n[o^]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Knocking}.] [OE. knoken, AS. cnocian, cnucian; prob. of imitative origin; cf. Sw. knacka. Cf. {Knack}.] 1. To drive or be driven against something; to strike against… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 29fanny about — verb a) To waste time or fool around; to engage in activity which produces little or no accomplishment. Then he dithered and fannied about. b) To wander about or prowl around. Johnson waited for an age while the barmen tossed bottles back and… …

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  • 30muck about — wander aimlessly, loiter …

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