wade
verb/weɪd/
/weɪd/
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they wade | /weɪd/ /weɪd/ |
| he / she / it wades | /weɪdz/ /weɪdz/ |
| past simple waded | /ˈweɪdɪd/ /ˈweɪdɪd/ |
| past participle waded | /ˈweɪdɪd/ /ˈweɪdɪd/ |
| -ing form wading | /ˈweɪdɪŋ/ /ˈweɪdɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive, transitive] to walk with an effort through something, especially water or mud
- (+ adv./prep.) He waded into the water to push the boat out.
- Sometimes they had to wade waist-deep through mud.
- The men waded ashore.
- We waded across the stream.
- wade something They waded the river at a shallow point.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- slowly
- ashore
- across
- …
- across
- in
- into
- …
- wade knee-deep, waist-deep, etc. in something
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Word OriginOld English wadan ‘move onward’, also ‘penetrate’, from a Germanic word meaning ‘go (through)’, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin vadere ‘go’.
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