to walk through any substance, as water, mud, snow, sand, tall grass, etc., that offers resistance
to walk about in shallow water, as for amusement
to go forward with effort or difficulty: to wade through a long report
☆ Informal to move energetically into action; attack with vigor: with in or into
Obsolete to go; proceed; pass
transitive verb
to go across or through by wading: to wade a brook
noun
an act of wading
See wade in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(wād)
verbwad·ed, wad·ing, wades verb, intransitive
To walk in or through water or something else that similarly impedes normal movement.
To make one's way arduously: waded through a boring report.
verb, transitive
To cross or pass through (water, for example) with difficulty: wade a swift creek.
noun
The act or an instance of wading.
Phrasal Verb: wade in/into To plunge into, begin, or attack resolutely and energetically: waded into the task.
(wād), Benjamin Franklin 1800-1878.
American politician who served as a U.S. senator from Ohio (1851-1869) and jointly authored the Wade-Davis Manifesto (1864), which declared the primacy of Congress in matters of the Reconstruction.