Trudge

//tɹʌd͡ʒ// noun, verb

noun, verb ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 2
    a long difficult walk wordnet
Verb
  1. 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. 2
    walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud wordnet
  3. 3
    To trudge along or over a route etc. transitive

Synonyms

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Example

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"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”).

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