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wade

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wade /weɪd /
▸ verb [no object, with adverbial] walk with effort through water or another liquid or viscous substance:
he waded out to the boat
in the absence of a jetty we waded ashore
he took off his boots to wade in a stream near camp.
▪ [with object] walk through (something filled with water):
I waded ditches instead of finding easier crossing places.
▸ noun [in singular] an act of wading.
– PHRASAL VERBS
wade in make a vigorous attack or intervention:
the elderly man waded in and wrestled the robber to the floor.
wade into (wade into someone or something) intervene in a situation or attack someone vigorously or forcefully:
Seb waded into the melee and started to beat off the boys
Vincent waded into his father with such anger.
wade through (wade through something) read laboriously through a long piece of writing:
they could just click it up on screen rather than have to wade through some hefty document.
– DERIVATIVES
wadeable (also wadable) adjective
– ORIGIN Old English wadan ‘move onward’, also ‘penetrate’, from a Germanic word meaning ‘go (through)’, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin vadere ‘go’.