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wading through

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

Meaning of wade through

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.

Questions about wading through

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

Words near wading through in the dictionary

  1. wading birds
  2. wading in
  3. wading pool
  4. wading pools
  5. Wading River
  6. wading through
  7. wadingly
  8. wadings
  9. wadis
  10. Wadiyara Koli
  11. Wadjak

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