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trudge

UK/tɹʌd͡ʒ/

trudge noun: a tramp, i.e. a long and tiring walk.

Noun

trudge (plural trudges)

  1. A tramp, i.e. a long and tiring walk.
    • The morning after the landslip, with rain still pouring down, it was an unpleasant trudge through deep mud to get there.2020 September 9, Paul Clifton, “Heavy rainfall causes landslip in Hampshire: At the scene...”, in Rail, page 10

Verb

trudge (third-person singular simple present trudges, present participle trudging, simple past and past participle trudged)

  1. (intransitive) To walk wearily with heavy, slow steps.
    • This famous archaeological site marks the farthest limit of human migration out of Africa in the middle Stone Age—the outer edge of our knowledge of the cosmos. I trudge to the caves in a squall.2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text
  2. (transitive) To trudge along or over a route etc.

trudge meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

trudge in Tamil

long and tiring walk
உந்துதல் untutal, நகர்தல் nakartal

trudge in Urdu

پیدل چلنا

trudge in Malayalam

ഇഴഞ്ഞുവലിഞ്ഞു നടക്കുക, തളർന്നുകിടക്കുക

trudge in Kannada

ಭಾರವಾದ ಹೆಜ್ಜೆ ಹಾಕು, ಆಯಾಸದಿಂದ ದಾರಿ ಸಾಗಿಸು, ಪ್ರಯಾಸದಿಂದ ನಡೆ, ತೊಡಕಿನ ನಡೆ, ದಣಿವಿನ ನಡೆ

Examples of trudge in a sentence

  • Living at the top of an elevatorless building meant trudging up twelve flights of stairs every day.
  • The tired mule flopped its ears forward and trudged on.
  • He fell flat on his back before Sinner trudged around the net for a warm, heartfelt embrace.

All 29 example sentences with trudge

Forms of trudge

Noun
pluraltrudges
Verb
third-person singular presenttrudges
present participletrudging
past participletrudged
pasttrudged

Origin of trudge

Mid-16th century. Original meaning was somewhat idiomatic, meaning "to walk using snowshoes." Probably of Scandinavian origin, compare Icelandic þrúga (“snowshoe”), Norwegian truga (“snowshoe”) and dialectal Swedish trudja (“snowshoe”).

Words formed from trudge

Words that rhyme with trudge

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Questions about trudge

What does trudge mean?
Trudge means a tramp, i.e. a long and tiring walk.
What is trudge in Tamil?
Trudge in Tamil is உந்துதல் (untutal), நகர்தல் (nakartal). See Trudge meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is trudge?
Trudge can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce trudge?
Trudge is pronounced /tɹʌd͡ʒ/ (UK).
What is the plural of trudge?
The plural of trudge is trudges.

Words near trudge in the dictionary

  1. Trudell
  2. Trudell's spleenwort
  3. Trudell's spleenworts
  4. Trudells
  5. Trudels
  6. trudge
  7. trudged
  8. trudgeman
  9. trudgen
  10. Trudgen stroke
  11. Trudgen strokes

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: trudge (page history and authors); trudge (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); trudge (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); trudge (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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