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plod

[plod] verb, plod·ded, plod·ding, noun
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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to introduce subtleties into or argue subtly about.
to spend time idly; loaf.
noun
5.
the act or a course of plodding.
6.
a sound of a heavy tread.

Origin:
1555–65; perhaps imitative

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


1. See pace1. 3. toil, moil, labor.

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  • 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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plod (plɒd)
 
vb , plods, plodding, plodded
1.  to make (one's way) or walk along (a path, road, etc) with heavy usually slow steps
2.  (intr) to work slowly and perseveringly
 
n
3.  the act of plodding
4.  the sound of slow heavy steps
5.  slang (Brit) a policeman
 
[C16: of imitative origin]
 
'plodding
 
adj
 
'ploddingly
 
adv
 
'ploddingness
 
n

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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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