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Plodding

adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Progressing slowly and laboriously.
Adjective
  1. 1
    (of movement) slow and laborious wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    Slow, laborious progress. countable, uncountable

    "I'd count not wearisome / Long toil, nor enterprise, / But strain to reach it; aye, with wrestlings stout / And hopes that even in the dark will grow / (Like plants in dungeons, reaching feelers out), / And ploddings wary and slow."

  2. 2
    the act of walking with a slow heavy gait wordnet
  3. 3
    hard monotonous routine work wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of plod form-of, gerund, participle, present

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