wade
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- pronunciation:
- weId
- features:
- Homophone Note, Word Explorer
| part of speech: |
verb |
| inflections: |
wades, wading, waded |
| definition 1: |
When you wade, you walk through water, or you walk through something else that is difficult to walk through.
We waded through the shallow water until we got to where the water was deep enough to swim.The soldiers waded through the tall grass.The hippos waded into the river.The animals waded through the mud.
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| definition 2: |
When people wade, they play in shallow water.
The little kids are wading in the small pool. |
| definition 3: |
If someone wades through things, they go through them slowly. They make slow progress studying, checking, or working on them.
Over the weekend, Ella's sister waded through her homework assignments. She had a lot because she missed three days of school last week. |
| related words: |
bathe |
| derivation: |
wadable (wadeable) (adj.) |
The words
wade and
weighed (past tense of the verb "weigh") sound alike but have different meanings.