trudge
Americanverb (used without object)
verb (used with object)
noun
verb
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(intr) to walk or plod heavily or wearily
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(tr) to pass through or over by trudging
noun
Related Words
See pace 1.
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of trudge
First recorded in 1540–50; perhaps blend of tread and drudge
Explanation
To trudge is to walk in a heavy, exhausted way. Your grandpa probably tells you about how he used to trudge six miles uphill through a foot of snow in the brutal cold every morning just to get to school. Trudge is also a noun that means a difficult, labored walk. If you take a mile-long trudge through heavy snow or mud, your steps will be slower and it will require more effort to put one foot in front of the other. Need help remembering what trudge means? Say it out loud. Trudge rhymes with sludge — and walking through sludge, or thick muck, would cause you to trudge.
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Example Sentences
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Trudge deeper into the name and there’s the ’Mans.
From Washington Post • Feb. 2, 2022
The distance between living and writing is responsible too for the shadow European history cast over Fermor as he sat down to write his Trudge books.
From Slate • Mar. 3, 2014
Step3 - Trudge my way home though the snow and sign my soul away to the Murdoch empire in order to watch Bumble and Co make complete fools of themselves.
From The Guardian • Dec. 3, 2010
Trudge, trudge, up hill and down she went, and presently she came to a garden of sweet flowers; lilies, lilacs, violets, roses—oh, never was there a lovelier garden!
From The Story-teller by Young, Florence Liley
Well; and tell me, Trudge;—she's pretty, you say—Is she fair or brown? or—— Trudge.
From Inkle and Yarico An opera, in three acts by Colman, George
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