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   wade

   /weɪd/

   verb

   • 1. walk with effort through water or another liquid or viscous substance: "he waded out to the boat" Similar paddlewallowdabbleslopsquelchtrudgeplodinformal:sploshfordcrosstraversewalk acrossmake one's way across
   • ▪ walk through (something filled with water): "I waded ditches instead of finding easier crossing places"

   noun

   • 1. an act of wading.

   Word Origin Old Englishwadan ‘move onward’, also ‘penetrate’, from a Germanic word meaning ‘go (through)’, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin vadere ‘go’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. wadeable adjective

   Scrabble Points: 8

   • W

     4

   • A

     1

   • D

     2

   • E

     1

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