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wade

  [weyd] ,verb, wad⋅ed, wad⋅ing, noun
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–verb (used without object)
1. to walk in water, when partially immersed: He wasn't swimming, he was wading.
2. to play in water: The children were wading in the pool most of the afternoon.
3. to walk through water, snow, sand, or any other substance that impedes free motion or offers resistance to movement: to wade through the mud.
4. to make one's way slowly or laboriously (often fol. by through): to wade through a dull book.
5. Obsolete. to go or proceed.
–verb (used with object)
6. to pass through or cross by wading; ford: to wade a stream.
–noun
7. an act or instance of wading: We went for a wade in the shallows.
—Verb phrase
8. wade in or into,
a. to begin energetically.
b. to attack strongly: to wade into a thoughtless child; to wade into a mob of rioters.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME waden to go, wade, OE wadan to go; c. G waten, ON vatha; akin to OE wæd ford, sea, L vadum shoal, ford, vādere to go, rush

Synonyms:
4. labor, toil, plod, plow, work.

Wade

  [weyd]
–noun
1. Benjamin Franklin, 1800–78, U.S. lawyer and antislavery politician.
2. a male given name.
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wade   (wād)   
v.   wad·ed, wad·ing, wades

v.   intr.
  1. To walk in or through water or something else that similarly impedes normal movement.
  2. To make one's way arduously: waded through a boring report.
v.   tr.
To cross or pass through (water, for example) with difficulty: wade a swift creek.
n.  The act or an instance of wading.
Phrasal Verb(s):
wade in/intoTo plunge into, begin, or attack resolutely and energetically: waded into the task.

[Middle English waden, from Old English wadan.]
Wade   (wād)   
American politician who served as a U.S. senator from Ohio (1851-1869) and jointly authored the Wade-Davis Manifesto (1864), which declared the primacy of Congress in matters of the Reconstruction.
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Wade

Wade\, n. Woad. [Obs.] --Mortimer.

Wade

Wade\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Waded; p. pr. & vb. n. Wading.] [OE. waden to wade, to go, AS. wadan; akin to OFries. wada, D. waden, OHG. watan, Icel. va?a, Sw. vada, Dan. vade, L. vadere to go, walk, vadum a ford. Cf. Evade, Invade, Pervade, Waddle.]

1. To go; to move forward. [Obs.]

When might is joined unto cruelty, Alas, too deep will the venom wade. --Chaucer.

Forbear, and wade no further in this speech. --Old Play.

2. To walk in a substance that yields to the feet; to move, sinking at each step, as in water, mud, sand, etc.

So eagerly the fiend . . . With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. --Milton.

3. Hence, to move with difficulty or labor; to proceed ?lowly among objects or circumstances that constantly ?inder or embarrass; as, to wade through a dull book.

And wades through fumes, and gropes his way. --Dryden.

The king's admirable conduct has waded through all these difficulties. --Davenant.

Wade

Wade\, v. t. To pass or cross by wading; as, he waded ?he rivers and swamps.

Wade

Wade\, n. The act of wading. [Colloq.]
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Language Translation for : wade
Spanish: caminar por el agua,
German: sich durcharbeiten,
Japanese: 骨折って進む
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wade 
O.E. wadan "to go forward, proceed," in poetic use only, except as oferwaden "wade across," from P.Gmc. *wadan (cf. O.N. vaða, Dan. vade, O.Fris. wada, Du. waden, O.H.G. watan, Ger. waten "to wade"), from PIE base *wadh- "to go," found only in Gmc. and L. (cf. L. vadere "to go," vadum "shoal, ford," vadare "to wade"). The notion is of "to advance into water." It. guado, Fr. gué "ford" are Gmc. loan-words. Originally a strong verb (p.t. wod, pp. wad); weak since 16c. Fig. sense of "to go into" (action, battle, etc.) is recorded from c.1374. Waders "waterproof high boots" is from 1841.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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