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AMBULATION

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Walking about

Example:

the hospital encouraged early ambulation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("ambulation" is a kind of...):

walk; walking (the act of traveling by foot)

Derivation:

ambulate (walk about; not be bedridden or incapable of walking)

ambulatory (relating to or adapted for walking)

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