I. ˈwād verb
( -ed/-ing/-s )
Etymology: Middle English waden, from Old English wadan; akin to Old High German watan to go, wade, Old Norse vatha to go through, wade, Latin vadere to go, Old English wæd ford, Old Norse vath, Latin vadum
intransitive verb
1. obsolete : go , pass , penetrate
2. : to step in or through a medium (as water, mud, or sand) that offers more resistance than air
waded through a snowdrift — F.V.W.Mason
burros came wading through the corral dust — F.B.Gipson
wading waist-deep in bushes — A.W.Hughes
3. : to move or get forward with difficulty or labor : proceed slowly among things that constantly hinder or embarrass
have to wade through twenty pages of dull moralizing — Douglas Stewart
wade through slaughter to a throne — Thomas Gray
4. : to set to work or attack with determination or vigor — used with in or into
obtained some textbooks and waded in
wade into the morning's mail
waded into his opponent with his bare fists
waded into the reputations of our national heroes — C.V.Woodward
transitive verb
: to pass or cross by wading
wade a stream
wade mud
II. noun
( -s )
: an act of wading
go for a wade in the brook