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单词 meander
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meanderverb

uk/miˈæn.dər/us/miˈæn.dɚ/

meander verb (RIVER/ROAD)

[ I ] If a river, stream, or road meanders, it follows a route that is not straight or direct.

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Bending, twisting and curving

  • bent
  • bowed
  • buckle
  • contort
  • convoluted
  • crook
  • flexure
  • fluted
  • intertwine
  • interweave
  • knot
  • matted
  • meandering
  • sinuous
  • twiddly
  • twine
  • twisted
  • twisty
  • warp
  • wring

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meander verb (WALK)

[ I usually + adv/prep ] to walk slowly without any clear direction:

We spent the afternoon meandering around the streets of the old town.

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Bending, twisting and curving

  • bent
  • bowed
  • buckle
  • contort
  • convoluted
  • crook
  • flexure
  • fluted
  • intertwine
  • interweave
  • knot
  • matted
  • meandering
  • sinuous
  • twiddly
  • twine
  • twisted
  • twisty
  • warp
  • wring

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Moving gently on foot

meander verb (NO PURPOSE)

[ I ] If a text, process, or activity meanders, it has no clear purpose or direction:

The film meanders along with no particular story line.

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Digressing and being indirect or evasive

  • beat
  • discursive
  • elliptical
  • euphemism
  • evasive
  • go (all) round the houses idiom
  • go off on a tangent idiom
  • implicit
  • move off sth/on (to sth)
  • obliquely
  • parry
  • sanitize
  • sidestep
  • skirt
  • stray
  • suggestion
  • talk around sth
  • tangent
  • tiptoe
  • tiptoe around sth/sb

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meandernoun [ C ]

uk/miˈæn.dər/us/miˈæn.dɚ/

meander noun [ C ] (RIVER)

a curve of a river or stream

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Geometry: bends, loops & curves

  • anfractuous
  • arc
  • bend
  • coil
  • curve
  • dogleg
  • helix
  • hyperbola
  • kink
  • loop
  • parabola
  • peaked
  • spiral
  • swoosh
  • trajectory
  • turn
  • twist
  • whirl
  • whorl
  • wraparound

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Parts of watercourses

meander noun [ C ] (JOURNEY)

a journey that has no particular direction:

The TV series continues its haphazard meander around the globe - this week in Portugal.

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Moving gently on foot

  • amble
  • blow
  • gently
  • mince
  • mincing
  • mooch
  • mosey
  • plod
  • potter
  • process
  • promenade
  • putter
  • saunter
  • slink
  • slunk
  • stroll
  • stroller
  • tiptoe
  • wander
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