rambled
past simple and past participle oframble
ramble
verb
uk/ˈræm.bəl/us/ˈræm.bəl/rambleverb(WALK)
[Iusually+ adv/prep]
towalkforpleasure,especiallyin thecountryside:
Iloveto ramblethroughthefieldsandlanesin thispartof thecountry.
Let'sgoramblingtomorrow.
Hiking & orienteering
- backpacker
- bushwalking
- cairn
- caver
- dibber
- fell walker
- fell walking
- hike
- hiker
- hiking boot
- Kendal mint cake
- nature trail
- rail trail
- ramble
- rambling
- speleology
- spelunker
- spelunking
- trekking
- trekking pole
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Walking and walkers
Moving a long way on foot
rambleverb(TALK/WRITE)
[I]disapproving
totalkor write in aconfusedway, often for alongtime:
Sorry, I'm rambling (on) -letme get back to thepoint.
Ways of talking
- beg the questionidiom
- blah
- blether
- blither
- coo
- declaim
- declamatory
- gabble
- loose
- mumble
- pipe
- ramble
- rattle on/away
- stage whisper
- talk trashidiom
- throwyourvoiceidiom
- trash
- trill
- word salad
- yak
rambleverb(SPREAD)
[I]
(especiallyof aplant) to go in many differentdirections:
Anoldclematisramblesoverthegardenwall.
Spreading and scattering
- all over the placeidiom
- bedaub
- bell
- bestrew
- billow
- diffuse
- dispersion
- dusting
- encroach on/uponsomething
- fan out
- go around
- go/do the roundsidiom
- smear
- smudge
- smudging
- smudgy
- spatter
- spattered
- sprinkle
- sweep
Examplesoframbled
rambled
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The debate hasrambledon for many hours.
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Yet herambledon for 15 minutes and told us very little.
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He hasrambledall over the place, but has not given one concrete argument against it.
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Herambleda great deal and quoted quite "phoney" precedents.
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He went into a coma andrambledabout eleven.
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That is a most revealing omission from a speech whichrambledover a whole range of other areas.
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It hasrambledall over the shop but at least it has allowed people to say what they have in their minds, which in some cases was not very much.
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We haverambleda little.
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I have often sat long and patiently, wanting only a few minutes while people haverambledon for 25 minutes saying what could have been said in five.
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Herambledon about various matters, including who owned what, whether a certain chap had a big landed estate and whether he had his own farm.
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Some have spoken for five minutes with an appeal to shorten the discussion, and then haverambledround the question in a way which almost shocked me.
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Werambledaround in the bazaar for a while.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The traveller visits in age those countries through which herambledin his youth, and hopes for merriment at the old place.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He made demands to represent himself, dressed in pajamas, shouted through bullhorns, andrambledincoherently.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.His monologues, never exactly crisp or slick, occasionallyrambled.
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- creator
- creature
- creature comfort
- creature-comfort
- creature comforts
- creature-comforts
- creature of habit
- creature-of-habit
- cred
- credence
- credential
- credentials
- credenza
- credibility
- credibility gap
- credibility-gap
- credible
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