Trudge
noun, verb ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 A tramp, i.e. a long and tiring walk.
"The morning after the landslip, with rain still pouring down, it was an unpleasant trudge through deep mud to get there."
- 2 a long difficult walk wordnet
- 1 To walk wearily with heavy, slow steps. intransitive
"2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text This famous archaeological site marks the farthest limit of human migration out of Africa in the middle Stone Age—the outer edge of our knowledge of the cosmos. I trudge to the caves in a squall."
- 2 walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud wordnet
- 3 To trudge along or over a route etc. transitive
Example
More examples"After every big snowfall, the students trudge through deep snow to school."
Etymology
Mid-16th century. Original meaning was somewhat idiomatic, meaning "to walk using snowshoes." Probably of Scandinavian origin, compare Icelandic þrúga (“snowshoe”), Norwegian truga (“snowshoe”) and dialectal Swedish trudja (“snowshoe”).