trudge
pronunciation
How to pronounce trudge in British English:
UK [trʌdʒ]
How to pronounce trudge in American English:
US [trʌdʒ]
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- Noun:
- a long difficult walk
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- Verb:
- walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud
Word Origin
- trudge (v.)
- "to walk laboriously," 1540s, of unknown origin. Related: Trudged; trudging. The noun meaning "an act of trudging" is attested from 1835.
Example
- 1. Then they trudge down the road to support other villages in similar campaigns .
- 2. They will trudge along , facing a growing set of roadblocks , until , exhausted , they collapse .
- 3. You don 't have to trudge to city hall .
- 4. They trudge up an 800-meter ( 0.5-mile ) track at a 50-degree incline to get to the rim of the crater . Then they descend 3 km ( 1.9 miles ) to the base of the volcano .
- 5. In stark , bare-bones prose , it describes a father and son 's trudge across a nation devastated by an unspecified environmental calamity - an endless valley of ashes dotted with desperate , deadly survivors .