Wade

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  • intransitive verb. To walk in or through water or something else that similarly impedes normal movement.
  • intransitive verb. To cross or pass through (water, for example) with difficulty.
  • noun. The act or an instance of wading.
  • phrasal verb. To begin resolutely or energetically to do (something).
  • phrasal verb. To read (something) with great effort.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of wading: as, a wade in a brook.
  • noun. A place where wading is done; a ford.
  • noun. A road. See the quotation.
  • 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Woad.
  • transitive verb. To pass or cross by wading.
  • noun. The act of wading.
  • intransitive verb. To go; to move forward.
  • intransitive verb. To walk in a substance that yields to the feet; to move, sinking at each step, as in water, mud, sand, etc.
  • intransitive verb. Hence, to move with difficulty or labor; to proceed �lowly among objects or circumstances that constantly �inder or embarrass.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. to walk through water or something that impedes progress.
  • verb. to progress with difficulty
  • noun. an act of wading
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. walk (through relatively shallow water)
  • noun. English tennis player who won many women's singles titles (born in 1945)
  • Word Usage
    "I do agree that Roe v. wade is a hard decision to defend."
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    Blade  Cade  Crusade  Dade  Jade  
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    ford  fork  go  woad  
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    waded  wades  wading