Adopting a child is a tough decision with plenty of bureaucracy to wade through.
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Wade
//weɪd//
Synonyms for "wade" (10 found)
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Closest matches (2)
Strong matches (3)
Proper Noun(1 words)
Related words (5)
Proper Noun(1 words)
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2 entriesRelated terms
2 entriesderived
6 entriesmanner of
1 entriesrelated to
18 entriesShowing 16 of 18 words.
Translations
56 translations across 33 languages.
Bashkir
1 entries- кисеү verb (to walk through water or something that impedes progress)
Bulgarian
3 entries- газене noun (act of wading)
- прегазване noun (act of wading)
- газя verb (to walk through water or something that impedes progress)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 涉水 verb (to walk through water or something that impedes progress)
Czech
1 entries- brodit se verb (to walk through water or something that impedes progress)
Danish
1 entries- vade verb (to walk through water or something that impedes progress)
Dutch
1 entries- waden verb (to walk through water or something that impedes progress)
Esperanto
1 entries- vadi verb (to walk through water or something that impedes progress)
Finnish
4 entries- kahluu noun (act of wading)
- kahlata verb (to walk through water or something that impedes progress)
- rämpiä verb (to walk through water or something that impedes progress)
- rämpiä verb (to progress with difficulty)
French
1 entries- patauger verb (to walk through water or something that impedes progress)
Galician
1 entries- vadear verb (to walk through water or something that impedes progress)
German
1 entries- waten verb (to walk through water or something that impedes progress)
Hungarian
3 entries- átgázol verb (to walk through water or something that impedes progress)
- átgázol verb (to progress with difficulty)
- átvergődik verb (to progress with difficulty)
Ido
1 entries- vadar verb (to walk through water or something that impedes progress)
Italian
4 entries- guado noun (act of wading)
- avanzare lentamente verb (to walk through water or something that impedes progress)
- guadare verb (to walk through water or something that impedes progress)
- procedere a stento verb (to walk through water or something that impedes progress)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- кеч verb (to walk through water or something that impedes progress)
Latvian
1 entries- brist verb (to walk through water or something that impedes progress)
Lithuanian
1 entries- bristi verb (to walk through water or something that impedes progress)
Mansaka
1 entries- lakad verb (to walk through water or something that impedes progress)
Māori
2 entries- kau verb (to walk through water or something that impedes progress)
- kautū verb (to walk through water or something that impedes progress)
Norman
1 entries- pataûgi verb (to walk through water or something that impedes progress)
Norwegian
2 entries- vade verb (to walk through water or something that impedes progress)
- vasse verb (to walk through water or something that impedes progress)
Old Czech
1 entries- břísti verb (to walk through water or something that impedes progress)
Polabian
1 entries- bradĕt verb (to walk through water or something that impedes progress)
Polish
1 entries- brnąć verb (to walk through water or something that impedes progress)
Portuguese
3 entries- vadeamento noun (act of wading)
- vadeação noun (act of wading)
- vadear verb (to walk through water or something that impedes progress)
Russian
3 entries- брести verb (to walk through water or something that impedes progress)
- пробираться verb (to progress with difficulty)
- продираться verb (to progress with difficulty)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- grunnaich verb (to walk through water or something that impedes progress)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- gacati verb (to walk through water or something that impedes progress)
- gacati verb (to progress with difficulty)
- probijati se verb (to walk through water or something that impedes progress)
- probijati se verb (to progress with difficulty)
Spanish
3 entries- vadeo noun (act of wading)
- esguazar verb (to walk through water or something that impedes progress)
- vadear verb (to walk through water or something that impedes progress)
Swedish
1 entries- vada verb (to walk through water or something that impedes progress)
Turkish
1 entries- yürümek verb (to walk through water or something that impedes progress)
Unami
1 entries- chuski verb (to walk through water or something that impedes progress)
Vietnamese
1 entries- lội verb (to walk through water or something that impedes progress)
Sample sentences
27 total sentences available.
I'm surprised Wade isn't carrying her in his purse.
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Wade lifts heavier weights than that.
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This river is shallow enough to wade to the other side.
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