wade
verb
[ weɪd ]
• walk with effort through water or another liquid or viscous substance.
• "he waded out to the boat"
Similar:
paddle,
wallow,
dabble,
slop,
squelch,
trudge,
plod,
splosh,
ford,
cross,
traverse,
walk across,
make one's way across,
wade
noun
• an act of wading.
Origin:
Old English wadan ‘move onward’, also ‘penetrate’, from a Germanic word meaning ‘go (through)’, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin vadere ‘go’.
