wades
Walks through water
Wades is the third-person singular of wade—to walk through water or another substance that offers resistance: She wades into the surf every morning.
Figuratively, to wade through something is to make slow progress through difficult material: He wades through hundreds of emails daily.
To wade in or wade into means to enter forcefully or without hesitation: She wades into every argument.
ford
Walkable river crossing
stream · ripple · current · marsh · wetland · estuary · tidal · floodplain · creek · river
slog
Laborious persistent effort
toil · labor · flounder · grapple · push · forge · persevere · persist · plow · muddle
wadesswims
Locomotes through water
dives · submerges · floats · plunges · treads water
- wade throughTraverse laboriously
- wading poolShallow children's water basin
- waded inBegan with vigor
- wade inEnter forcefully, uninvited
- Roe v Wade1973 reproductive rights decision
- wading inEntering water gradually