Meaning

7 senses
  1. (intransitive)To run at a gallop.

    The horse galloped past the finishing line.

    cause to move at full gallop

  2. (intransitive)To ride at a galloping pace.

    galoppieren

    скака́ть гало́помskakátʹ galópom, галопи́роватьgalopírovatʹ

    ride at a galloping pace

  3. (transitive)To cause to gallop.

    to gallop a horse

  4. (ambitransitive)To make electrical or other utility lines sway and/or move up and down violently, usually due to a combination of high winds and ice accrual on the lines.

  5. (intransitive)To run very fast.

  6. (figuratively, intransitive)To go rapidly or carelessly, as in making a hasty examination.

  7. (intransitive)To progress rapidly through the body.

Examples

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  1. I saw a horse galloping toward me.

    deIch sah ein Pferd auf mich zu galoppieren.

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  2. We galloped our horses over the hill.

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  3. Tom urged his horse into a gallop.

    deTom drängte sein Pferd in einen Galopp.

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  4. I've galloped for three days only to tell you that I could not care less for you.

    Три дні я гналася за вами, аби сказати, як мені до вас байдуже.

    ruТри дня я гналась за вами, чтобы сказать вам, как вы мне безразличны.

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  5. The horse gallops over the meadow.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
to ride at a galloping pace:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to ride at a galloping pace:

Origin

From Middle English galopen (“to gallop”), from Old French galoper (compare modern French

From Middle English galopen (“to gallop”), from Old French galoper (compare modern French galoper), from Frankish *wala hlaupan (“to run well”), from *wala (“well”) + *hlaupan (“to run”), from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną (“to run, leap, spring”), from Proto-Indo-European *klaup-, *klaub- (“to spring, stumble”). Possibly also derived from a deverbal of Frankish *walhlaup (“battle run”) from *wal (“battlefield”) from a Proto-Germanic word meaning "dead, victim, slain" from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“death in battle, killed in battle”) + *hlaup (“course, track”) from *hlaupan (“to run”).

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Forms

gallops, galloping, galloped, galloped
Base formgallop · to gallop
3rd person singulargallops
Present participlegalloping
Past simplegalloped
Past participlegalloped

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theygallop
he, she, itgallops

Past simpleLesson

all personsgalloped

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave galloped
he, she, ithas galloped

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill gallop

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • cause to move at full gallop:extend

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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