wade
/weɪd/ verb C1- To walk through water or something that impedes progress.
- To progress with difficulty. · to wade through a dull book
- To walk through (water or similar impediment); to pass through by wading. · wading swamps and rivers
- To gleam intermittently through clouds or mist.
- To enter recklessly. · to wade into a fight or a debate
He/she/it wades · Past waded · Past participle waded · -ing form wading
Verb forms
- Base form
- wade
- He/she/it
- wades
- Past
- waded
- Past participle
- waded
- -ing form
- wading
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“You mean that someone waded across the moat?”
“It’s all very well your saying that a man escaped by wading this moat, but what I ask you is, how did he ever get into the house at all if the bridge was up?”
Then he could hope when the deed was done to slip quickly from the window, to wade the moat, and to get away at his leisure.
Douglas, blows his head nearly off with this weapon, and escapes by wading the moat, after leaving a card beside the dead man, which will, when mentioned in the papers, tell other members of the society that vengeance has been done.
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