walk

1. (intransitive) To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times. Compare run.Examples: "To walk briskly for an hour every day is to keep fit."; "Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. […] His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn. He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them."; "Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells."intransitive

2. (intransitive, colloquial, law) To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.Examples: "If you can’t present a better case, that robber is going to walk."Synonyms: be acquitcolloquialintransitive

3. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.Examples: "If you leave your wallet lying around, it’s going to walk."Synonyms: be, get stolen, be, get nick, get pinchcolloquialeuphemisticintransitive

4. (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side appeals and before the umpire has ruled; done as a matter of sportsmanship when the batsman believes he is out.intransitive

5. (transitive) To travel (a distance) by walking.Examples: "I walk two miles to school every day."; "The museum’s not far from here – you can walk it."; "Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. […] His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn. He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them."transitive

6. (transitive) To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.Examples: "I walk the dog every morning."; "Will you walk me home?"; "I will rather trust[…]a thief to walk my ambling gelding."transitive