afoot
pronunciation
How to pronounce afoot in British English:
UK [əˈfʊt]
How to pronounce afoot in American English:
US [əˈfʊt]
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- Adjective:
- traveling by foot
- currently in progress
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- Adverb:
- on foot; walking
Word Origin
- afoot (adj.)
- c. 1200, afote, from a- "on" (see a- (1)) + foot (n.). Figurative sense of "in active operation" is from 1601 ("Julius Caesar").
Example
- 1. She knew something terrible was afoot .
- 2. For those yearning to regain a lost legal sovereignty , there is another game afoot .
- 3. Several big changes are afoot .
- 4. But obviously something is afoot .
- 5. Yet important changes are afoot here .