walking

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Synonyms: balking, waling, talking, waking, walling, wanking, walkin, calking, welking, walding, waulking

Antonyms: balking, waling, talking, waking, walling, wanking, walkin, calking, welking, walding, waulking

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Adjective

1. Incarnate as a human; living.
   • Elizabeth knows so many words that they call her the walking dictionary.
   • Phil's mother is a walking miracle after surviving that accident.
2. Able to walk in spite of injury or sickness.
3. Characterized by or suitable for walking.
   • a walking tour
   • good walking shoes
4. Heavily characterized by some given quality.
5. Being a style of bass accompaniment or line, common in Baroque music (1600–1750) and 20th century jazz, blues and rockabilly, which creates a feeling of regular quarter note movement, akin to the regular alternation of feet while walking.
   • a walking bass, or walking bassline

Verb

1. present participle and gerund of walk

Noun

1. verbal noun of walk.
   • After five hours' walking in the heat, I was close to exhaustion.

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