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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.
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)
Translations
long and tiring walk
Verb
trudge (third-person singular simple present trudges, present participle trudging, simple past and past participle trudged)
- (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.
- 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)
- (transitive) To trudge along or over a route etc.
Derived terms
Translations
to walk wearily with heavy, slow steps
References
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967