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- Dictionarywade/weɪd/
verb
- 1. walk with effort through water or another liquid or viscous substance: "he waded out to the boat" Similar
noun
- 1. an act of wading.
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to walk through water or other liquid with some effort, because it is deep enough to come quite high up your legs, or thick : The river was full but we managed to wade across. We waded a shallow river. They had to wade through a swamp. [ I ] US (UK paddle) to walk in water that is not very deep:
The meaning of WADE is to step in or through a medium (such as water) offering more resistance than air. How to use wade in a sentence.
WADE meaning: 1. to walk through water or other liquid with some effort, because it is deep enough to come quite…. Learn more.
vb. 1. to walk with the feet immersed in (water, a stream, etc): the girls waded the river at the ford. 2. (often foll by: through) to proceed with difficulty: to wade through a book. 3. ( intr; foll by in or into) to attack energetically. n. the act or an instance of wading.
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. Synonyms: work, plow, plod, toil, labor.
wade. (weɪd) Word forms: 3rd person singular present tense wades, present participle wading, past tense, past participle waded. 1.verb. If you wade through something that makes it difficult to walk, usually water or mud, you walk through it. Rescuers had to wade across a river to reach them. [VERB preposition/adverb]
To wade is to walk through water. If you've been fishing without a boat, you'll have to wade to reach your precious prize (if it gets away, you can brag about how big it was). When you wade, it doesn't have to literally be through a liquid; wading includes any action that involves a laborious slog through something that offers resistance.
WADE definition: to walk through water: .
Definition of wade verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
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.
