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travel

 
 
/ˈtrævəl/ verb (present participle UK travelling, past tense and past participle travelled, present participle US traveling, past tense and past participle traveled)

Definition

MAKE A JOURNEY [I, T] › to make a journey: I spent a year travelling around Asia. He travelled over 100 miles to be at the wedding. He has to travel abroad a lot on business.
MOVE [I] › If light, sound, or news travels, it moves from one place to another: News of the accident travelled fast.
(Definition of travel verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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