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Webster 1913 Edition


Trudge

Trudge

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Trudged
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Trudging
.]
[Perhaps of Scand. origin, and originally meaning, to walk on snowshoes; cf. dial. Sw.
truga
,
trudja
, a snowshoe, Norw.
truga
, Icel.
þrūga
.]
To walk or march with labor; to jog along; to move wearily.
And
trudged
to Rome upon my naked feet.
Dryden.

Webster 1828 Edition


Trudge

TRUDGE

,
Verb.
I.
To travel on foot. The father rode; the son trudged on behind.
1.
To travel or march with labor.
--And trudg'd to Rome upon my naked feet.

Definition 2024


trudge

trudge

English

Noun

trudge (plural trudges)

  1. A tramp, i.e. a long and tiring walk.

Translations

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.
    • 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)
      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.
  2. (transitive) To trudge along or over a route etc.

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References

  • Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967