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wade through

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wade

  [weyd] ,verb, wad⋅ed, wad⋅ing, noun
Use wade through in a Sentence
–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.
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Word Origin & History

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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