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verb (used without object)
1.
to walk heavily or move laboriously; trudge: to plod under the weight of a burden.
2.
to proceed in a tediously slow manner: The play just plodded along in the second act.
3.
to work with constant and monotonous perseverance; drudge.
verb (used with object)
4.
to walk heavily over or along.
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Plod
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Origin:
1555–65; perhaps imitative
1555–65; perhaps imitative
Related forms
plod·der, noun
plod·ding·ly, adverb
plod·ding·ness, noun
out·plod, verb (used with object), -plod·ded, -plod·ding.
un·plod·ding, adjective
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Example Sentences
- In tiny cobbled back streets, old women bearing the aprons and straw baskets of their forebears plod their way to market.
- The nervous, defeated-looked candidates plod on, reciting their speeches.
- Soon he will plod up the ridge, turn, and again hurl himself diagonally down the slope.
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Word Origin & History
plod
1562, of uncertain origin, perhaps imitative of the sound of walking heavily or slowly. Plodding "diligent and dull" is attested from 1589.
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