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trudge

[truhj] verb, trudged, trudg⋅ing, noun
–verb (used without object)
1. to walk, esp. laboriously or wearily: to trudge up a long flight of steps.
–verb (used with object)
2. to walk laboriously or wearily along or over: He trudged the deserted road for hours.
–noun
3. a laborious or tiring walk; tramp.

Origin:
1540–50; perh. b. tread and drudge


trudger, noun


1. tramp. See pace 1 .
trudge   (trŭj)   
intr.v.   trudged, trudg·ing, trudg·es
To walk in a laborious, heavy-footed way; plod.
n.  A long, tedious walk.

[Origin unknown.]
trudg'er n.

Trudge

Trudge\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Trudged; p. pr. & vb. n. Trudging.] [Perhaps of Scand. origin, and originally meaning, to walk on snowshoes; cf. dial. Sw. truga, trudja, a snowshoe, Norw. truga, Icel. [thorn]r[=u]ga.] To walk or march with labor; to jog along; to move wearily.

And trudged to Rome upon my naked feet. --Dryden.
Language Translation for : Trudge
Spanish: arrastrarse, arrastrar los pies, caminar con dificultad,
German: (mühsam) stapfen,
Japanese: とぼとぼ歩く

trudge 
"to walk laboriously," 1547, of unknown origin. The noun meaning "an act of trudging" is attested from 1835.
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