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peregrinated

verb

past tense of peregrinate
1
as in traversed
to make one's way through, across, or over Jack Kerouac's celebrated novel about penniless free spirits peregrinating the United States

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2
as in traveled
to take a trip especially of some distance a couple of backpacking college students who decided to spend the summer peregrinating around Ireland

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for peregrinated
  1. traversed
  2. traveled
  3. followed
  4. toured
  5. crossed
  6. trekked
  7. walked
  8. journeyed
Verb
  • To find their bodies, that afternoon Comella and other firemen traversed the steep, smoldering steel mountain using a series of ladders, a process not unlike the way trekkers negotiate the treacherous Khumbu ice fall at the base of Mount Everest.
    — Peter Wilkinson, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026
  • As the airplane air-conditioning worked overtime in the desert heat, the grooms traversed the tarmac numerous times to shuttle water and supplies to the horses.
    — Danielle Rossingh, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of traversed
Verb
  • Many of them traveled to Orlando for a workout-and-hang Hurts organized over the summer.
    — Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • The four players traveled from Los Angeles to Australia as goodwill ambassadors.
    — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of traveled
Verb
  • The move is the first in a string of major central bank decisions this week, with the Bank of England up next, and followed by the Bank of Japan on Friday.
    — Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2026
  • That study, being conducted by DRC and Doctors Without Borders, will give participants a shot of Ervebo, followed a month later by a shot of an experimental vaccine designed to protect against the Sudan version of the Ebola virus.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of followed
Verb
  • After practice, players and coaches toured the Tower of London and enjoyed a sightseeing day before turning their attention back toward football.
    — Taylor Eldridge, Kansas City Star, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Bators died in 1990, but the group sporadically reunited and toured in the decades after.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of toured
Verb
  • Just east of the creek – which was crossed by a stone bridge built in 1896 – Monticello's main street branched north from the highway near Gunn Ranch.
    — Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 6 Sep. 2026
  • This includes images from Mars rovers starting in the 1990s and data showing that both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 crossed into interstellar space in the 2010s.
    — Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of crossed
Verb
  • Rather than taking the dry way out and heading home on the 4 train, we all got caught up in a more southerly impulse and trekked to our friends’ new place down in Battery Park City.
    — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Daniel talked with dozens of health officials and trekked to Maine and Louisiana for this eye-opening story.
    — O. Rose Broderick, STAT, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of trekked
Verb
  • At one point, Ramírez, decked out in his jockey outfit, walked Rolison around the grounds by the ear of his horse costume.
    — Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2026
  • The Londoner walked away looking only slightly less confused.
    — Taylor Eldridge, Kansas City Star, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of walked
Verb
  • Born in Portland, Oregon, in 1873, Lowe journeyed to China for his education, and then returned to America, moving between major western cities, first San Francisco, then Denver, on to Portland and Seattle.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2026
  • The videos quickly went viral, with lines forming outside the hut as people journeyed to the site, eager to try one for themselves.
    — Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of journeyed
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“Peregrinated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peregrinated. Accessed 19 Sep. 2026.

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