wade through
Push slowly through
To wade through something is to move forward slowly and with effort, as if walking through water or thick mud.
The phrase most often describes working your way through a large or tedious amount of material: I had to wade through hundreds of emails after vacation.
It suggests persistence despite difficulty or monotony, whether you're dealing with paperwork, dense prose, or crowds of people.
- waist deepImmersed to midsection
- clamberClimb with effort
- slogLaborious persistent effort
- trudgeWalk slowly, heavily
- siftSeparate coarse from fine
pore over · study · drag · review · mud · plod · understand · reams · fine print · legal jargon · grind · squelch · process · thick fog · red tape · fords · analyze · backlog
- searchsearch, web search, seek, text search, hunt
engagement depth
wade throughskim
Pass over lightly
skim over · scan · browse · flip through · leaf through