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trudge

[truhj]

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verb (used without object)

to walk, especially laboriously or wearily: to trudge up a long flight of steps.

verb (used with object)

to walk laboriously or wearily along or over: He trudged the deserted road for hours.

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noun

a laborious or tiring walk; tramp.

Origin:
1540–50; perhaps blend of tread and drudge

Related forms

trudg·er, noun

Synonyms
1. tramp. See pace¹.

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They trudge into remote forests to play taped bird calls, hoping that a survivor of a vanished species will reply.

Back the hunters trudge to the first entry in their game-book.

We trudge down the dune, surprising the lady who lives in the valley.

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They trudge into remote forests to play taped bird calls, hoping that a survivor of a vanished species will reply.

Back the hunters trudge to the first entry in their game-book.

We trudge down the dune, surprising the lady who lives in the valley.

We learn that even urban sophisticates will trudge into the park in midwinter to put out seeds and suet.

It's getting to be that time of year when the garage-less must trudge outside extra early to start the car to defrost the windows.

Millions gladly missed sleep, and then had to drag themselves out of bed and trudge to work.

It is illogical to have the washing machine in a room that you have to trudge down a corridor to reach.

The grueling trudge netted her no more than a bum knee and a glimpse of a parking lot.

By comparison, that makes a trudge to the video store as inconvenient and obsolete as starting a car with a hand crank.

Then they trudge down the road to support other villages in similar campaigns.

But still, the impeachment proceedings trudge forward.

Old women trudge beneath burly five-foot-high stick bundles.

Some decide to trudge to the nearest town and wait for the next sack of donated grain.

They trudge through the blizzard and discover an empty cabin.

One thought would be to trudge straight across the deep snow, to cut down on the slowest part of the hike.

As these legal cases trudge forward, broader efforts are being made to ensure that past mistakes will not be repeated.

During the day, they trudge through the mud until they.

But that did not help the tenants who had to trudge up the stairs, past the.

She wanted nothing more than to get someone else to trudge outside in the snow.

Eight months pregnant, she had tried to trudge north in her fragile.

The losers trudge back to their locker room in sweaty jerseys.

Visitors who try out a hiking trail bog down and trudge back, dispirited, in heavier boots.

It is not easy to trudge up a snowy mountain to watch a race.

Every morning, three groups of women trudge down there from three directions.

Diners now trudge all the way to the first floor for relief.

Citified ladies trudge through snowbanks toward lurking wolves and worse.

The losers, meanwhile, trudge back to their locker room in sweaty jerseys.

Nature was driving away these silly creatures with their umbrellas, making them trudge back toward their belching buses.

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World English Dictionary

trudge (trʌdʒ)

—vb
1.	(intr) to walk or plod heavily or wearily
2.	(tr) to pass through or over by trudging

—n
3.	a long tiring walk

[C16: of obscure origin]

'trudger

—n

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Word Origin & History

trudge

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

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"All things here appear to me to trudge on in one and the same round: we rise in the morning that we may eat breakfast, dinner and supper and to bed again that we may get up the next morning and do the same: so that you never saw two peas more alike than our yesterday and to-day."

-Thomas Jefferson

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