v.
- walk through a liquid or viscous substance.
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(wade through)
read laboriously through (a long piece of writing).
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(wade in/into)
informal attack, intervene, or become involved in a vigorous or forceful way.
n.
an act of wading.
Derivative
- wadable
(also wadeable)
adj.
Etymology
OE wadan ‘move onward’, also ‘penetrate’, from a Gmc word meaning ‘go (through)’.