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wade
1[ weyd ]
verb (used without object)
- to walk in water, when partially immersed:
He wasn't swimming, he was wading.
- to play in water:
The children were wading in the pool most of the afternoon.
- to walk through water, snow, sand, or any other substance that impedes free motion or offers resistance to movement:
to wade through the mud.
- to make one's way slowly or laboriously (often followed by through ):
to wade through a dull book.
- Obsolete. to go or proceed.
verb (used with object)
- to pass through or cross by wading; ford:
to wade a stream.
noun
- an act or instance of wading:
We went for a wade in the shallows.
verb phrase
- to begin energetically.
- to attack strongly:
to wade into a thoughtless child; to wade into a mob of rioters.
Wade
2[ weyd ]
noun
- Benjamin Franklin, 1800–78, U.S. lawyer and antislavery politician.
- a male given name.
Wade
1/ weɪd /
noun
- Wade(Sarah) Virginia1945FBritishSPORT AND GAMES: tennis player ( Sarah ) Virginia. born 1945, English tennis player; won three Grand Slam singles titles: US Open (1968), Australian Open (1972), and Wimbledon (1977)
wade
2/ weɪd /
verb
- to walk with the feet immersed in (water, a stream, etc)
the girls waded the river at the ford
- introften foll bythrough to proceed with difficulty
to wade through a book
- intr; foll by in or into to attack energetically
noun
- the act or an instance of wading
Derived Forms
- ˈwadable, adjective
Other Words From
- un·waded adjective
- un·wading adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of wade1
Word History and Origins
Origin of wade1
Example Sentences
Wade netted nearly $200 million in earnings during his playing career in addition to his off-court sponsorship agreements.
There are some purists who are going to claim that Wade just made up a word, that there’s no such thing as “un-turnover-able.”
Wade likes Moleskine’s products for classic and bullet journaling.
The doctors were subsequently convicted of illegal distribution of opioids, with Wade sentenced to 10 years in prison and Diamond to 20 years.
The Big Three in Miami was a terror, but it’s easy to forget how out of sync James and Wade were offensively early on,15 as Bosh took time to settle into a tertiary role after being a No.
Media outlets “crowd sourced” the project, asking readers to help wade through the 24,000 pages of Palin emails.
There are no emails for us to wade through—even if we were champing at the bits.
They were busily implementing these in cases like Roe v. Wade when a right-wing insurgency took them by surprise.
To be sure, a more activist Supreme Court could still have decided to wade into the waters and decide this issue once and for all.
In the eloquent words of colonial preacher John Winthrop, “When a man is to wade through deep water, there is required tallness.”
We had now at one moment to wade through plains of sand, and the next to clamber over the rocks by wretched paths.
"And my geldin' kin travel that same road spryer 'n Green's hoss—for a hunderd dollars," said Wade, eagerly.
Streams which a boy could wade last March would now give an elephant a tussle.
She was obliged to wade through, but escaped a serious wetting by walking on her heels.
They were able to wade out unto the islet & thereon hid they themselves among the reeds.
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