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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 followed 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.
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noun
Verb phrase7.
an act or instance of wading: We went for a wade in the shallows.
8.
wade in/into,
a.
to begin energetically.
b.
to attack strongly: to wade into a thoughtless child; to wade into a mob of rioters.
Origin:
before 900; Middle English waden to go, wade, Old English wadan to go; cognate with German waten, Old Norse vatha; akin to Old English wæd ford, sea, Latin vadum shoal, ford, vādere to go, rush
before 900; Middle English waden to go, wade, Old English wadan to go; cognate with German waten, Old Norse vatha; akin to Old English wæd ford, sea, Latin vadum shoal, ford, vādere to go, rush
Related forms
un·wad·ed, adjective
un·wad·ing, adjective
Synonyms
4. labor, toil, plod, plow, work.
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,"
EXPANDvadare "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. Figurative sense of "to go into" (action, battle, etc.) is recorded from late 14c.
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