Wade

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • verb-intransitive. To walk in or through water or something else that similarly impedes normal movement.
  • verb-intransitive. To make one's way arduously: waded through a boring report.
  • v. To cross or pass through (water, for example) with difficulty: wade a swift creek.
  • n. The act or an instance of wading.
  • phrasal-verb. in To plunge into, begin, or attack resolutely and energetically: waded into the task.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. to walk through water or something that impedes progress.
  • v. to progress with difficulty
  • n. an act of wading
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Woad.
  • verb-intransitive. To go; to move forward.
  • verb-intransitive. To walk in a substance that yields to the feet; to move, sinking at each step, as in water, mud, sand, etc.
  • verb-intransitive. Hence, to move with difficulty or labor; to proceed �lowly among objects or circumstances that constantly �inder or embarrass.
  • v. To pass or cross by wading.
  • n. The act of wading.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To walk through any substance that impedes the free motion of the limbs; move by stepping through a fluid or other semiresisting medium: as, to wade through water; to wade through sand or snow.
  • To enter in; penetrate.
  • To move or pass with difficulty or labor, real or apparent; make way against hindrances or embarrassments, as depth, obscurity, or resistance, material or mental.
  • To pass or cross by wading; ford: as, to wade a stream.
  • n. The act of wading: as, a wade in a brook.
  • n. A place where wading is done; a ford.
  • n. A road. See the quotation.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. walk (through relatively shallow water)
  • n. English tennis player who won many women's singles titles (born in 1945)
  • Verb Form
    waded    wades    wading   
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    woad    go    fork    ford   
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