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walk

 
 
/wɔːk/ verb

Definition

[I, T] to move forward by putting one foot in front of the other and then repeating the action: She walks to school. We walked twenty miles in all.
walk sb home/to sth to walk with someone in order to guide them or keep them safe: He walked me to my house.
walk the dog to walk with a dog to give the dog exercise
(Definition of walk verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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