Sekirov Dictionary

wade

/weɪd/

verb 5
noun 2
forms 5
phrases 2

verb5

•
to cross water or deep snow on foot, pushing through it with the legs
- wading swamps and rivers
•
To walk through water or something that impedes progress.
- So eagerly the fiend […] / With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, / And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. — 1667
•
To progress with difficulty.
- to wade through a dull book
•
To enter recklessly.
- The champ [Alekhine] seems to reel and stagger helplessly. It's an old gag because a blind man can see he ain't glassy-eyed a-tall—but Rodzinsky wades in. 10.QxR — 1940
•
To gleam intermittently through clouds or mist.
- I saw my Meg come linking o'er the lee; I saw my Meg, but Maggy saw nae me: For yet the sun was wading through the mist, And she was close upon me ere she wist. — 1821

noun2

•
An act of wading.
- We had to be careful during our dangerous wade across the river.
(informal) A ford; a place to cross a river.

forms

waded · wading · wades · wadeth · wadest

Phrases with wade

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