wade
/weɪd/
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Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.98 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
4
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1
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Meaning
verb
To gleam intermittently through clouds or mist.
Example Sentences
- "So eagerly the fiend […] / With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, / And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies."
- "After breakfast the men set out to hunt, while the women went to a large pool of warm water covered with a green scum and filled with billions of tadpoles. They waded in to where the water was about a foot deep and lay down in the mud. They remained there from one to two hours and then returned to the cliff."
- "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."
- "wading swamps and rivers"
Etymology
From Middle English waden, from Old English wadan, from Proto-West Germanic *wadan, from Proto-Germanic *wadaną (“to go, pass through”), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂dʰ- (“to go”). Cognates include Saterland Frisian waadje (“to wade”), West Frisian wâdzje (“to wade”), Dutch waden (“to wade”), German Low German waden (“to wade”), German waten (“to wade”), Danish vade (“to wade”), Swedish vada (“to wade”), Icelandic vaða (“to wade”), and Latin vādō (“go, walk; rush”).
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