navigate /ˈnæv.ɪ.ɡeɪt/ verb5 •To plan, control and record the position and course of a vehicle, ship, aircraft, etc., on a journey; to follow a planned course.He navigated the bomber to the Ruhr. •To give directions, as from a map, to someone driving a vehicle.You drive. I'll navigate. •To move between web pages, menus, etc. by means of hyperlinks, mouse clicks, or any other mechanism.It was difficult to navigate back to the home page. •(figurative) To find a way through a difficult situation or process.Complaints have risen in particular from passengers changing trains, who have observed little or no improvement in their ability to navigate between the station's 13 platforms. — 2020 •To travel over water in a ship; to sail.We navigated to France in the dinghy. formsnavigated · navigating · navigates