Locomote (Verb)
Meaning
Change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast".
Classification
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming.
Examples
- The company will locomote to a new headquarters downtown next year.
- Scientists have found that certain cells can locomote independently outside a host environment.
- As she pursued her dreams, she began to locomote through various levels of her career, slowly reaching for success.
- The bus went around tight corners, increasing its speed, before it began to locomote downhill in a smooth turn.
- An injured person, taking care, was still able to locomote to a nearby exit without added difficulties.
Synonyms
Hyponyms
- Pass On
- Breeze
- Move Around
- Carry
- Lance
- Forge
- Career
- Crank
- Jounce
- Steamer
- Go By
- Travel Rapidly
- Glide
- Slice Through
- Lurch
- Surpass
- Do
- Creep
- Cannonball Along
- Billow
- Proceed
- Propagate
- Ghost
- Crawl
- Whoosh
- Uprise
- Hasten
- Advance
- Take The Air
- Shuttle
- Travel Purposefully
- Beetle
- Bucket Along
- Ascend
- Withdraw
- Travel Along
- Repair
- Wind
- Return
- Cast
- Spurt
- Zigzag
- Go Forward
- Retire
- Circulate
- Taxi
- Jump
- Come Up
- Slither
- Back
- Ride
- Rush
- Seek
- Swim
- Arise
- Change
- Hurtle
- Ease
- Motor
- Whisk
- Resort
- Spirt
- Swan
- Weave
- Belt Along
- Hiss
- Betake Oneself
- Get About
- Pass
- Race
- Swap
- Wander
- Drive
- Snowshoe
- Whine
- Play
- Speed
- Pelt Along
- Plow
- Sift
- Turn
- Pace
- Fall
- Shack
- Whish
- Wend
- Lead
- Travel By
- Wheel
- Angle
- Lift
- Transfer
- Automobile
- Tram
- Push
- Roam
- Rise
- Circuit
- Zoom
- Rove
- Drift
- Step
- Swing
- Progress
- Come
- Draw
- Drag
- Raft
- Roll
- Wing
- Steam
- Spread
- Vagabond
- Slide
- Stray
- Bang
- Walk
- Swash
- Circle
- Go Around
- Tramp
- Trail
- Island Hop
- Cruise
- Caravan
- Tread
- Descend
- Scramble
- Hotfoot
- Plough
- Go Down
- Continue
- Pull Away
- Pursue
- Recede
- March On
- Be Adrift
- Ramble
- Pull Back
- Overfly
- Step On It
- Whistle
- Float
- Ferry
- Journey
- Run
- Prance
- Move Back
- Sit
- Pan
- Go Up
- Ski
- Retreat
- Range
- Slice Into
- Go On
- Thread
- Fly
- Derail
- Hurry
- Get Around
- Flock
- Err
- Retrograde
- Pass By
- Bounce
- Follow
- Precede
- Trundle
- Precess
- Rush Along
- Round
- Accompany
- Outflank
- Pass Over
- Travel