ALL meanings of wade
wade
W w - verb without object wade to walk in water, when partially immersed: He wasn't swimming, he was wading. 1
- verb without object wade to play in water: The children were wading in the pool most of the afternoon. 1
- verb without object wade to walk through water, snow, sand, or any other substance that impedes free motion or offers resistance to movement: to wade through the mud. 1
- verb without object wade to make one's way slowly or laboriously (often followed by through): to wade through a dull book. 1
- verb without object wade Obsolete. to go or proceed. 1
- verb with object wade to pass through or cross by wading; ford: to wade a stream. 1
- noun wade Benjamin Franklin, 1800–78, U.S. lawyer and antislavery politician. 1
- noun wade a male given name. 1
- noun wade Walk through water or another liquid or soft substance. 1
- intransitive verb wade walk: through water 1
- intransitive verb wade enter: into argument 1
- verb wade If you wade through something that makes it difficult to walk, usually water or mud, you walk through it. 0
- verb wade To wade through a lot of documents or pieces of information means to spend a lot of time and effort reading them or dealing with them. 0
- verb wade to walk with the feet immersed in (water, a stream, etc) 0
- verb wade to proceed with difficulty 0
- verb wade to attack energetically 0
- noun wade the act or an instance of wading 0
- noun wade (Sarah) Virginia. born 1945, English tennis player; won three Grand Slam singles titles: US Open (1968), Australian Open (1972), and Wimbledon (1977) 0
- intransitive verb wade to walk through any substance, as water, mud, snow, sand, tall grass, etc., that offers resistance 0
- intransitive verb wade to walk about in shallow water, as for amusement 0
- intransitive verb wade to go forward with effort or difficulty 0
- intransitive verb wade to move energetically into action; attack with vigor 0
- intransitive verb wade to go; proceed; pass 0
- verb transitive wade to go across or through by wading 0
- noun wade an act of wading 0
- noun wade an act of wading. 0
- noun wade Obsolete form of woad. 0
- verb wade (Intransitive Verb) to walk through water or something that impedes progress. 0
- verb wade (Intransitive Verb) to progress with difficulty. 0
- verb wade (Transitive Verb) to walk through (water or similar impediment); to pass through by wading. 0
- verb wade (Intransitive Verb) To enter recklessly. 0