ramble
/ˈɹæmbəl/ verb C2- To move about aimlessly, or on a winding course.
- To walk for pleasure; to amble or saunter.
- To lead the life of a vagabond or itinerant; to move about with no fixed place of address.
- To talk or write incessantly, unclearly, or incoherently, with many digressions. · Francine has a tendency to ramble when it gets to be late in the evening.· She often rambles about bees' behavior, both in the hive and in the field.
- To follow a winding path or course. · The river rambled through the mountains.
He/she/it rambles · Past rambled · Past participle rambled · -ing form rambling
Verb forms
- Base form
- ramble
- He/she/it
- rambles
- Past
- rambled
- Past participle
- rambled
- -ing form
- rambling
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Rachel set out; she had not far to go; the big, rambling, orchard-embowered house where the Cuthberts lived was a scant quarter of a mile up the road from Lynde’s Hollow.
"The house was so large and so rambling that a regiment might be hid away in it and no one the wiser.
When, after a considerable drive, we arrived at the strange old rambling house which my client had described, it was Ralph, the elderly butler, who opened the door.
“‘You must know,’ said he, ‘that though I am a bachelor, I have to keep up a considerable staff of servants at Hurlstone, for it is a rambling old place, and takes a good deal of looking after.
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