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wade through

wade through verb: to search or progress through with difficulty, as when performing a boring, repetitive research task.

Verb

wade through (third-person singular simple present wades through, present participle wading through, simple past and past participle waded through)

  1. To search or progress through with difficulty, as when performing a boring, repetitive research task.
    • This synopsis saves me from having to wade through a pile of textbooks.

Forms of wade through

third-person singular presentwades through
present participlewading through
past participlewaded through
pastwaded through

Questions about wade through

What does wade through mean?
Wade through means to search or progress through with difficulty, as when performing a boring, repetitive research task.
What part of speech is wade through?
Wade through is a verb.
What is the past tense of wade through?
The past tense of wade through is waded through.

Words near wade through in the dictionary

  1. waddywood
  2. waddywoods
  3. wade
  4. Wade Hampton
  5. wade in
  6. wade through
  7. Wade-Dahl-Till shunt
  8. Wade-Dahl-Till shunts
  9. Wade-Dahl-Till valve
  10. Wade-Dahl-Till valves
  11. Wade-Giles

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