wade

About 3.54 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To walk through water or something that impedes progress.
2. verb To progress with difficulty.

   to wade through a dull book

3. verb To walk through (water or similar impediment); to pass through by wading.

   wading swamps and rivers

4. verb To gleam intermittently through clouds or mist.
5. verb To enter recklessly.

   to wade into a fight or a debate

6. noun An act of wading.

   We had to be careful during our dangerous wade across the river.

7. noun A ford; a place to cross a river.
8. noun Obsolete form of woad.

Similar words

wad plough valley wadi bless tatiana david tatyana splash ford

Often followed by

through and in hampton was into to had across

Word family

wadable wadeable waded wades wading