wade

See also Wade

English

Etymology

Old English wadan, from Proto-Germanic *wadanan, from Proto-Indo-European *wadh- "to go". Cognates include Latin vadere "go, walk; rush" (whence English invade, evade).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /weɪd/, SAMPA: /weId/

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• Rhymes: -eɪd

Verb

wade (third-person singular simple present wades, present participle wading, simple past and past participle waded)

1. (intransitive) to walk through water or something that impedes progress.
   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter VIII

     After breakfast the men set out to hunt, while the women went to a large pool of warm water covered with a green scum and filled with billions of tadpoles. They waded in to where the water was about a foot deep and lay down in the mud. They remained there from one to two hours and then returned to the cliff.

2. (intransitive) to progress with difficulty

Translations

to walk through water or something that impedes progress

Dutch: waden (nl) Esperanto: vadi (eo) Finnish: kahlata (fi), rämpiä (fi), tarpoa (fi) German: waten (de) Hungarian: átgázol (hu)

Norwegian: vade (no), vasse (no) Scottish Gaelic: grunnaich (gd) Spanish: vadear (es) Swedish: vada (sv)

to progress with difficulty

Finnish: rämpiä (fi), tarpoa (fi)

Russian: пробираться (ru), продираться (ru)

Noun

wade (plural wades)

1. an act of wading

Related terms

• wade in
• wade into
• wade through

Anagrams

• awed
• Dewa

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Dutch

Verb

wade

1. singular present subjunctive of waden.