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• travel over
• travel through
• take a look at
• investigate
• reconnoiter

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• passing through

adjective as in migrant/migratory

Weak matches

• immigrating
• impermanent
• migratorial
• on the move
• passing over
• peripatetic
• transmigratory

adjective as in migrational

adjective as in penetrating

Strongest matches

Strong matches

• infiltrating
• going through

adjective as in transmigratory

• migrational

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Example sentences.

The big slug happened to hit the suspect in the street, passing through his arm and then striking Police Officer Andrew Dossi.

After passing through an iron door with a round crank, a small blueprint marks the official entrance into the secret shelter.

The U.S. made it mandatory that America ships passing through high risk waters have a security team on board.

The square is going back to being the square, for passing through, and for working.

Tourists passing through stopped to ask reporters what all the excitement was about.

Passing through the gate, our friends found themselves at once in the midst of the Chang-an-sa monastery buildings.

Passing through the twisted iron railing they reached the path, and thence made their way to the road, shining white in the night.

The night shift had clocked in over an hour ago, and there should be no passing through the gate for at least six hours.

Some years ago I injured the third and fourth fingers of both my hands with the ropes passing through them.

The aeroplane had been hoisted to its elevated position by means of a stout rope passing through a pulley at the top of the pole.

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Words related to passing through are not direct synonyms, but are associated with the word passing through . Browse related words to learn more about word associations.

adjective as in moving, traveling

adjective as in migratory

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On this page you'll find 217 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to pass through, such as: do, cross, range, track, traverse, and trek.

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What is another word for wandering ?

Synonyms for wandering ˈwɒn dər ɪŋ wan·der·ing, this thesaurus page includes all potential synonyms, words with the same meaning and similar terms for the word wandering ., complete dictionary of synonyms and antonyms rate these synonyms: 0.0 / 0 votes.

Synonyms: roving , vagrant , rambling , strolling , discursive

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wandering, roving, vagabondage adjective

travelling about without any clear destination

"she followed him in his wanderings and looked after him"

Synonyms: roving , vagabondage

Antonyms: settled , direct

mobile, nomadic, peregrine, roving, wandering adjective

"a restless mobile society"; "the nomadic habits of the Bedouins"; "believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future"; "wandering tribes"

Synonyms: mobile , rambling , peregrine , planetary , nomadic , roving , meandering(a) , erratic , winding , wandering(a) , fluid

meandering(a), rambling, wandering(a), winding adjective

of a path e.g.

"meandering streams"; "rambling forest paths"; "the river followed its wandering course"; "a winding country road"

erratic, planetary, wandering adjective

having no fixed course

"an erratic comet"; "his life followed a wandering course"; "a planetary vagabond"

Synonyms: planetal , winding , nomadic , quicksilver(a) , rambling , meandering(a) , wandering(a) , terrestrial , erratic , peregrine , worldwide , planetary , world-wide , mobile , fickle , temperamental , global , world(a) , roving , mercurial

Antonyms: direct , settled

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wandering noun

Synonyms: roving , rambling , travelling , travel , peregrination , excursion , range , roaming

Synonyms: aberration , deviation from rectitude

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wandering adjective

Synonyms: nomadic , migratory , itinerant , vagrant , vagabond , landloping , wayfaring , errant , unsettled , devious , excursive , digressive , deviating

Synonyms: rambling , ranging , roving , strolling , itineracy , peregrination , pilgrimage , digression , expatiation , departure , deviation , divergence , errantry , aberration , delirium , raving , irrationality , divagation

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List of paraphrases for "wandering":

stray , curfew , roaming

How to pronounce wandering?

How to say wandering in sign language, words popularity by usage frequency, how to use wandering in a sentence.

Casey Lam :

Whatever it is, the object is the first dark stellar remnant discovered wandering through Milky Way galaxy, unaccompanied by another star.

Addison Del Mastro :

I don’t know if you’d be able to identify what they were if they had a different name on the front, there’s nothing to engage the wandering imagination.

Lin Sternlicht :

An important technique to stop the stress response is to ground yourself in the present moment.Stress is often triggered by experiences that are not occurring in the moment, often stemming from past or future events and mind wandering, as such, grounding oneself is an effective technique to relieve stress. There are many techniques to ground yourself in the present moment, and the more you practice them the easier and more natural it will become.

Jeff Yang :

We're all hoping that this works, because 20 years of wandering in the wilderness is damn well enough.

Amishi Jha :

It's the antidote to mind wandering, it's paying attention to our present moment experience without editorializing or reacting to it.

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Translations for wandering, from our multilingual translation dictionary.

• errante Spanish
• سیار Persian
• errance French
• allaban Scottish Gaelic
• vagabundo Galician
• vapp Icelandic
• vagus Latin
• vagar Portuguese
• vandrande Swedish
• lang thang Vietnamese
• וואַנדערינג Yiddish

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Thesaurus Definition of wanders

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Synonyms & Similar Words

• knocks (about)
• gads (about)
• kicks around
• mills (about or around)
• transgresses
• falls from grace
• breaks the law

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Thesaurus Definition of wanders  (Entry 2 of 2)

• perambulations
• constitutionals
• peregrinations
• expeditions
• pilgrimages

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[ won -der-ing ]

Crowds of wandering tourists crossed the square.

They were historically a wandering people, moving seasonally through the area.

They followed a wandering path down the mountain.

For our honeymoon we had a period of delightful wandering through Italy.

Her wanderings took her all over the world.

mental wanderings;

the wanderings of delirium.

Wandering by Alzheimer’s patients is a problem in nursing homes.

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Other words from.

• wan·der·ing·ly adverb
• wan·der·ing·ness noun
• un·wan·der·ing adjective
• un·wan·der·ing·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of wandering 1

Example Sentences

Later, information emerged that this sea lion is known for its wanderings.

This is counter-intuitive because spontaneous fluctuations and mind-wandering can also lead to depressive rumination and anxiety.

Similar to playing and dreaming is the wandering of our minds.

When psychologists do that, they find that mind-wandering is staggeringly frequent.

Mind-wandering is often considered a harmless quirk, as in the cliché of the scatter-brained professor.

Mr. Bachner found it by wandering through the market and identified a craftsmen here who works in a tiny booth.

And, in a gratuitous show of homicidal prowess, Moses kills two assassins he meets while wandering in the desert of Sinai.

After wandering at haphazard some little way I met a peasant in a sleigh.

He showed signs of a restless, wandering soul, someone searching for meaning around him.

I spotted American students wandering around London last week dressed in Stars and Stripes shorts and bikini tops.

She observed his pale looks, and the distracted wandering of his eyes; but she would not notice either.

This mode of learning promotes attention and prevents mind-wandering.

He paled a little, and sucked his lip, his eyes wandering to the girl, who stood in stolid inapprehension of what was being said.

John and Judas became the good and evil Wandering Jews of mediæval folklore.

He was relieved to learn that his grandson Moses Mole was not wandering about the garden, after all.

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Meaning of wandering in English

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wander verb ( MOVE AROUND )

• walk The baby has just learned to walk.
• stride She strode purposefully up to the desk and demanded to speak to the manager.
• march He marched right in to the office and demanded to see the governor.
• stroll We strolled along the beach.
• wander She wandered from room to room, not sure of what she was looking for.
• amble She ambled down the street, looking in shop windows.
• crawl There'd been a bad accident on the motorway and traffic was crawling.
• trundle Lorries trundle through the narrow lanes.
• creep He crept downstairs, hardly making any noise.
• trudge They trudged wearily through the snow.
• stroll We spent the afternoon strolling around Budapest.
• amble He ambled over to the window.
• Don't worry if you lose hold of the reins - the horse won't wander off.
• He wandered around, clearing up in a desultory way.
• We wandered along the shore , stepping over the flotsam that had washed up in the night .
• We wandered through the beautifully proportioned rooms of the Winter Palace.
• She was wandering around in a daze this morning .
• His eyes wandered over the posters adorning the walls .
• dumbwalking

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wander verb ( SUBJECT )

• bury the lede idiom
• candy coating
• candy-coated
• circumlocution
• circumlocutory
• get on to/onto something
• gloss over something
• go off on a tangent idiom
• prevaricate
• tiptoe around something/someone
• unexpressed

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