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wade

verb

1 five or six men were wading in the icy water:

paddle, wallow, dabble, slop, squelch, trudge, plod;

informal splosh.

2 Tony waded across the stream:

ford, cross, traverse, walk across, make one's way across.

3 they could just click it up on screen, rather than having to wade through some hefty document:

work one's way, plough, plod, trawl, proceed with difficulty, labour, toil away at, plug away at;

peruse, study;

browse, leaf, flick, skim, look, thumb;

informal slog.

□ wade in

informal

police with truncheons waded in:

move in, set to, set to work, pitch in, buckle down, go to it, put one's shoulder to the wheel;

informal plunge in, dive in, get stuck in, get cracking.

□ wade into someone

informal

I waded into those skinheads:

attack, set upon, assault, launch oneself at, weigh into, fly at, let fly at, turn on, round on, lash out at, hit out at, fall on, jump on/at, lunge at, charge, rush, storm;

informal lay into, light into, tear into, lace into, pitch into, beat up;

British, informal have a go at.

□ wade into something

informal

Flynn would gladly wade into the attack:

get involved in, intervene in, get to work on, set to work on, tackle.

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