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Walk over   /wɔk ˈoʊvər/   Listen
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Walk  v. i.  (past & past part. walked; pres. part. walking)  
1.
To move along on foot; to advance by steps; to go on at a moderate pace; specifically, of two-legged creatures, to proceed at a slower or faster rate, but without running, or lifting one foot entirely before the other touches the ground. "At the end of twelve months, he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon." "When Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus." Note: In the walk of quadrupeds, there are always two, and for a brief space there are three, feet on the ground at once, but never four.
2.
To move or go on the feet for exercise or amusement; to take one's exercise; to ramble.
3.
To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person; to go about as a somnambulist or a specter. "I have heard, but not believed, the spirits of the dead May walk again." "When was it she last walked?"
4.
To be in motion; to act; to move; to wag. (Obs.) "Her tongue did walk in foul reproach." "Do you think I'd walk in any plot?" "I heard a pen walking in the chimney behind the cloth."
5.
To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct one's self. "We walk perversely with God, and he will walk crookedly toward us."
6.
To move off; to depart. (Obs. or Colloq.) "He will make their cows and garrans to walk."
To walk in, to go in; to enter, as into a house.
To walk after the flesh (Script.), to indulge sensual appetites, and to live in sin.
To walk after the Spirit (Script.), to be guided by the counsels and influences of the Spirit, and by the word of God.
To walk by faith (Script.), to live in the firm belief of the gospel and its promises, and to rely on Christ for salvation.
To walk in darkness (Script.), to live in ignorance, error, and sin.
To walk in the flesh (Script.), to live this natural life, which is subject to infirmities and calamities.
To walk in the light (Script.), to live in the practice of religion, and to enjoy its consolations.
To walk over, in racing, to go over a course at a walk; said of a horse when there is no other entry; hence, colloquially, to gain an easy victory in any contest.
To walk through the fire (Script.), to be exercised with severe afflictions.
To walk with God (Script.), to live in obedience to his commands, and have communion with him.






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"Walk over" Quotes from Famous Books



... everything to us, or rather to me, for Mr. Brett knew all about it beforehand. Then we had a long walk over the hills, which are billowy and wooded, like Surrey, and when we came back Mr. Trowbridge took me to the beehives to get some honey and show me what a queen bee is like. He gave me a hat with a mosquito-net veil and put on one himself. Then he opened a hive, and when I wasn't a bit nervous, ...
— Lady Betty Across the Water • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson

... there come a pause she asked if he had any interest about the old Indian remains, and took down some queer stone gouges and hammers off of one of her shelves and showed them to him same's if he was a boy. He remarked that he'd like to walk over an' see the shell-heap; so she went right to the door and pointed him the way. I see then that she'd made her some kind o' sandal-shoes out o' the fine rushes to wear on her feet; she stepped light an' ...
— The Country of the Pointed Firs • Sarah Orne Jewett

... the same thing, emotionally. The chapel in which they lie is most beautiful, and the verger had just brushed the carpet within the chancel to such immaculate dustlessness that he could not bring himself to let us walk over it. He let us walk round it, and we saw the chapel as a favor, which we discharged with an abnormal tip after severe debate whether a person of this verger's rich respectability and perfect manner would take any tip at all. In the event it appeared ...
— Seven English Cities • W. D. Howells

... so," said Mr. Dooley. But there was no content upon his face as he watched a lounging oaf of a boy catch up with Mr. Hennessy, exchange a curtly affectionate greeting, and walk over to where Mrs. Hennessy could be seen reading the "Key of ...
— Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War • Finley Peter Dunne

... handing me so many pleasant moments with so many unpleasant kicks? And what wild streak of good luck finds you sitting in the moonlight this hour of the night? It surely was a scurvy trick of Fate dumping me in the creek, when there's a bridge to walk over, just to land me right here, where you're handing up fancy dreams to a very chilly but beautiful moon. Guess I'm kind of spoiling the picture for you though. I may be some picture to look at, but I wouldn't say ...
— The Law-Breakers • Ridgwell Cullum


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