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Answer for the clue "In the morning, bus dropping back behind schedule — walk! ", 8 letters:
ambulate

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Word definitions for ambulate in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ambulate \Am"bu*late\, v. i. [L. ambulare to walk. See Amble .] To walk; to move about. [R.] --Southey.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. walk about; not be bedridden or incapable of walking

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, from Latin ambulatus , past participle of ambulare "to walk" (see amble ). Related: Ambulated ; ambulating .

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. To walk; to relocate one's self under the power of one's own legs.

Usage examples of ambulate.

They resembled an ambulating boneyard, a brace of pythons turned inside out.

Sheep became bumpily sheathed with the stuff so that they looked like big ambulating wasp nests.

Behind the chingaroon ambulated a group of negs and poses, though which was who and who was witch was hard to say at first glance.

A red-purple spiky beach-ball shape ambulated through the doorway on jointed flexing spines.

His torso was massive, wrinkled and ambulated, with a smooth oval area immediately above the central boss that housed the secondary motor nerve center.

For the past six months, all sorts of executive instruments are set up and put into operation: The Committee of Public Safety, the Committee of General Security, ambulating proconsuls with full power, local committees authorized to tax and imprison at will, a revolutionary army, a revolutionary tribunal.