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wading in

wading in is the present participle and gerund of wade in.

Meaning of wade in

Verb

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

  1. To interrupt someone, or a situation, by doing or saying something abruptly, or forcefully, and usually without thinking about the consequences.
    • The Federal Reserve is under pressure to wade in with an emergency interest-rate cut.

Questions about wading in

What is wading in the present participle and gerund of?
Wading in is the present participle and gerund of wade in.

Words near wading in in the dictionary

  1. Wadi Hammamat
  2. wadies
  3. wading
  4. wading bird
  5. wading birds
  6. wading in
  7. wading pool
  8. wading pools
  9. Wading River
  10. wading through
  11. wadingly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wading in (page history and authors); wade in (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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