[weyd] 
,verb, wad⋅ed, wad⋅ing, noun | 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. |
| 6. | to pass through or cross by wading; ford: to wade a stream. |
| 7. | an act or instance of wading: We went for a wade in the shallows. |
| 8. | wade in or into,
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| wade (wād) v. wad·ed, wad·ing, wades v. intr.
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 in
Also, wade into. Plunge into, begin or attack resolutely and energetically, as in She waded into that pile of correspondence. This idiom transfers entering water to beginning some action. [Mid-1800s]