Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To walk in or through water or something else that similarly impedes normal movement.
- intransitive verb To cross or pass through (water, for example) with difficulty.
- noun The act or an instance of wading.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of wading: as, a wade in a brook.
- noun A place where wading is done; a ford.
- noun A road. See the quotation.
- To walk through any substance that impedes the free motion of the limbs; move by stepping through a fluid or other semiresisting medium: as, to
wade through water; to wade through sand or snow. - To enter in; penetrate.
- To move or pass with difficulty or labor, real or apparent; make way against hindrances or embarrassments, as depth, obscurity, or resistance, material or mental.
- To pass or cross by wading; ford: as, to
wade a stream.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Woad.
- transitive verb To pass or cross by wading.
- noun colloq. The act of wading.
- intransitive verb obsolete To go; to move forward.
- intransitive verb To walk in a substance that yields to the feet; to move, sinking at each step, as in water, mud, sand, etc.
- intransitive verb Hence, to move with difficulty or labor; to proceed �lowly among objects or circumstances that constantly �inder or embarrass.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive to
walk throughwater or something thatimpedes progress . - verb intransitive to progress with
difficulty - noun an act of wading
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb walk (through relatively shallow water)
- noun English tennis player who won many women's singles titles (born in 1945)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I do agree that Roe v. wade is a hard decision to defend.
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If roe v. wade is overturned, no more republicans … sounds good to me.
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Aside from the disaster of overturning roe v wade, which is a very likely scenario if McCain wins and appoints an anti-choice judge, I think obama is more likely to appoint a justice who might actually be representative of a slice of america not presently represented on the court.
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As objects move through space they have to 'wade' through these Higgs particles that 'cling' to them, causing a drag that shows up as mass.
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As objects move through space they have to 'wade' through these Higgs particles that 'cling' to them, causing a drag that shows up as mass.
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It's going to be interesting to watch him kind of wade into the waters of Washington politics.
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You are well informed and you can surf the Web when others of us just kind of wade in the shallows.
Commencement Speech 1996
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That means it can "wade" through standing water that is 27.56 inches deep -- a level just under the headlights, almost to the top of the tires and nearly halfway up the tops of the doors -
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Fixed "wade" water sound not playing correctly on maps like Chateau.
Voodoo Extreme 2010
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Speaking exclusively to Digital Spy, the actor - HRG on the NBC series - said that the season four finale will enable them to "wade" into a new volume.
Niki_B commented on the word wade
"The U.N. waded into the mess in 1999, deploying 90 political officers and staffers to the Congo to monitor a short-lived cease-fire." WSJ
July 22, 2012