Thesaurus: wade

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1. n. Woad.
2. v. i. To go; to move forward.
3. v. i. To walk in a substance that yields to the feet; to move, sinking at each step, as in water, mud, sand, etc.
4. v. i. Hence, to move with difficulty or labor; to proceed /lowly among objects or circumstances that constantly /inder or embarrass; as, to wade through a dull book.
5. v. t. To pass or cross by wading; as, he waded /he rivers and swamps.
6. n. The act of wading.
7. v. walk (through relatively shallow water)
8. Woad. [Obs.] Mortimer. 1. To go; to move forward. [Obs.] When might is joined unto cruelty, Alas, too deep will the venom wade. Chaucer. Forbear, and wade no further in this speech. Old Play. 2. To walk in a substance that yields to the feet; to move, sinking at each step, as in water, mud, sand, etc. So eagerly the fiend . . . With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. Milton. 3. Hence, to move with difficulty or labor; to proceed as, to wade through a dull book. And wades through fumes, and gropes his way. Dryden. The king's admirable conduct has waded through all these difficulties. Davenant. To pass or cross by wading; as, he waded . The act of wading. [Colloq.]
9. Woad. [Obs.] Mortimer.
10. v:100 n. English tennis player who won many women's singles titles (born in 1945) v. walk (through relatively shallow water)