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单词 circumambulate
释义 cir·cum·ambulate
\| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷+\ verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Latin circum ambulatus, past participle of circum ambulare to walk around, from circum + ambulare — more at circum-, amble
intransitive verb
1. : to walk or go around; especially : to walk or go around an object of worship or reverence or in a ritual circular course
 < one circumambulates with the object of worship as one's physical as well as spiritual focus — S.W.Nakamura >
2. : to wander about at leisure without definite purpose or as a result of indirection
transitive verb
: to walk around especially ritualistically
 < she might have gone and circumambulated the Yeobrights' premises at Blooms-End — Thomas Hardy >
 < the stupa which the worshipers circumambulated — W.N.Brown >
cir·cum·ambulation \“+\ noun -s
cir·cum·ambulator \“+\ noun -s
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