Circumambulate

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  • transitive verb. To walk around (something), especially as part of a ritual.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To walk round or about.
  • To go round; search through.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To walk round about.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To walk around something in a circle, especially for a ritual purpose.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. walk around something
  • Word Usage
    "During the Hajj, Muslims uniformly circumambulate around the Holy Kaaba in what is known as 'Tawaaf', irrespective of gender, nationality or sect."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
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