wade

[wade]

English tennis player who won many women's singles titles (born in 1945)

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Woad.

Noun
English tennis player who won may women''s singles titles (born in 1945)

Verb
walk (through relatively shallow water); "Can we wade across the river to the other side?"; "Wade the pond"

n.
Woad.

v. i.
To go; to move forward.

v. i.
To walk in a substance that yields to the feet; to move, sinking at each step, as in water, mud, sand, etc.

v. i.
Hence, to move with difficulty or labor; to proceed /lowly among objects or circumstances that constantly /inder or embarrass; as, to wade through a dull book.

v. t.
To pass or cross by wading; as, he waded /he rivers and swamps.

n.
The act of wading.

Wade

Wade , n. Woad. [Obs.] Mortimer.

Wade

Wade , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Waded; p. pr. & vb. n. Wading.] [OE. waden to wade, to go, AS. wadan; akin to OFries. wada, D. waden, OHG. watan, Icel. vaa, Sw. vada, Dan. vade, L. vadere to go, walk, vadum a ford. Cf. Evade, Invade, Pervade, Waddle.] 1. To go; to move forward. [Obs.]

When might is joined unto cruelty, Alas, too deep will the venom wade.

Forbear, and wade no further in this speech.

2. To walk in a substance that yields to the feet; to move, sinking at each step, as in water, mud, sand, etc.

So eagerly the fiend . . . With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.

3. Hence, to move with difficulty or labor; to proceed lowly among objects or circumstances that constantly inder or embarrass; as, to wade through a dull book.

And wades through fumes, and gropes his way.

The king's admirable conduct has waded through all these difficulties.

Wade

Wade, v. t. To pass or cross by wading; as, he waded he rivers and swamps.

Wade

Wade , n. The act of wading. [Colloq.]

Woad.

To go; to move forward.

To pass or cross by wading; as, he waded he rivers and swamps.

The act of wading.

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Usage Examples

It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there's the argument that people should be left alone on the other hand, there's the argument to wade in a stop slaughters in places like Bosnia and Kosovo and what we probably should have done in Rwanda.

It's possible that the 2012 general-election race will be the least overtly religious one since 1972, the last campaign before Roe v. Wade and the rise of Jimmy Carter brought evangelicalism into the political mainstream. That's because faith remains a complicated issue for Obama, who is still wrongly thought to be a Muslim in some quarters.

Even those who, like me, believe that Roe v. Wade and the decisions elaborating on reproductive rights were constitutionally correct must recognize that, for many on the right, the sudden and relatively sloppily reasoned character of the abortion rulings... did real damage to the Court's reputation as a relatively neutral arbiter of legal disputes.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.