wade
verb (used without object)
to walk in water, when partially immersed.
Used to describe an action that will be fully completed or achieved by a specific point in the future.
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Because we will have waded out too far, out past the point of no return, too far to ever make it home again.
From "Missing May" by Cynthia Rylant
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