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walk alone en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (intransitive, literally) To walk without any companion.
  2. (figuratively, intransitive) To do something without help from anyone else, to be unaided in one's task.
    • I walk this lonely road, the only one that I have ever known. [I] don't know where it goes, but it's only me, and I walk alone. 2004 September 21, “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”, in American Idiot, performed by Green Day:
  3. (figuratively, intransitive, poetic) To be lonely, to desire social accompaniment.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
walks alone Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
walking alone Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
walked alone Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
walked alone Tense=Past lexicographic

Deriveds

walk-alone

Synonyms

go it alone

Translations (1)

unm xuxwe (to walk without anyone else)