wade
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English waden, from Old English wadan, from Proto-West Germanic *wadan, from Proto-Germanic *wadaną (“to go, pass through”), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂dʰ- (“to go”). Cognates include Saterland Frisian waadje (“to wade”), West Frisian wâdzje (“to wade”), Dutch waden (“to wade”), German Low German waden (“to wade”), German waten (“to wade”), Danish vade (“to wade”), Swedish vada (“to wade”), Icelandic vaða (“to wade”), and Latin vādō (“go, walk; rush”).
Inflected forms:
form: wades
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wading
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: waded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: waded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: wades
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To walk through water or something that impedes progress.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: So eagerly the fiend […] / With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, / And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
After breakfast the men set out to hunt, while the women went to a large pool of warm water covered with a green scum and filled with billions of tadpoles. They waded in to where the water was about a foot deep and lay down in the mud. They remained there from one to two hours and then returned to the cliff.
gloss: To progress with difficulty.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: to wade through a dull book
And wades through fumes, and gropes his way.
The king's admirable conduct has waded through all these difficulties.
gloss: To walk through (water or similar impediment); to pass through by wading.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: wading swamps and rivers
gloss: To gleam intermittently through clouds or mist.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
... the pale light of a crescent moon wading among the black and lowering clouds.
When sunshine has a scorching and enervating effect on man, during the greater part of the day, the next day will be cloudy and perhaps rainy. When the sun wades through clouds of any kind, rain may or may not follow;
[…] the sun is "wading" when it is struggling through a heavy scud, and the moon is "sitting" when her dark side is turned towards the earth. The poets themselves may be in vain searched for a finer expression than the first.
The moon, which had arisen during their conversation, was, in the phrase of that country, wading or struggling with clouds, and shed only a doubtful and occasional light.
It's rain afoor meeght, t'sun waded sadly ez sha peeped ower Roseberry.
gloss: To enter recklessly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: to wade into a fight or a debate
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
Thailand’s Queen Mother Sirikit, who brought glamour to a postwar revival in the country’s monarchy and who, in later years, would occasionally wade into politics, has died aged 93 […]
gloss: An act of wading.
pos: noun
examples: We had to be careful during our dangerous wade across the river.
gloss: A ford; a place to cross a river.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
Related words: wade in
wade through
Derived words: St Nicholas at Wade
waddle
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