wade
To walk through water or something that impedes progress.
Verb 4 meanings
To walk through water or something that impedes progress.
To progress with difficulty.
“to wade through a dull book”
To walk through (water or similar impediment); to pass through by wading.
“wading swamps and rivers”
To gleam intermittently through clouds or mist.
Noun 2 meanings
An act of wading.
“We had to be careful during our dangerous wade across the river.”
A ford; a place to cross a river.
Etymology
From Middle English waden, from Old English wadan, from Proto-West Germanic *wadan, from Proto-Germanic *wadaną (“to go, pass through”), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂dʰ- (“to go”).
WADE at a glance
WADE has 4 letters and scores 8 points in Scrabble (W 4 + A 1 + D 2 + E 1) and 8 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #7,294 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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