wade
pronunciation
How to pronounce wade in British English:
UK [weɪd]
How to pronounce wade in American English:
US [weɪd]
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- Verb:
- walk (through relatively shallow water)
Word Origin
- wade (v.)
- Old English wadan "to go forward, proceed, move, stride, advance" (the modern sense perhaps represented in oferwaden "wade across"), from Proto-Germanic *wadan (cognates: Old Norse vaða, Danish vade, Old Frisian wada, Dutch waden, Old High German watan, German waten "to wade"), from PIE root *wadh- (2) "to go," found only in Germanic and Latin (cognates: Latin vadere "to go," vadum "shoal, ford," vadare "to wade"). Italian guado, French gué "ford" are Germanic loan-words. Specifically "walk into or through water" (or any substance which impedes the free motion of limbs) c. 1200. Originally a strong verb (past tense wod, past participle wad); weak since 16c. Figurative sense of "to go into" (action, battle, etc.) is recorded from late 14c. Related: Waded; wading. Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, [Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"]
Example
- 1. New delhi , india : children wade along a flooded road to reach their school
- 2. The broker took her to the tumen river and simply told her to wade across to china .
- 3. One had attempted to pass under the guomao bridge in a taxi , when the taxi got stuck in the deep water and he had to wade back to his original destination .
- 4. We finally managed to wade through the temporary sea and reached our destination , to find leaky ceilings and soaked customers .
- 5. Discovering agua blanca 's secret satellite beach will require a short swim or a wade through gin-clear mediterranean waters to a world of stone stacks and rune-like shells .