Meaning & use
plodded
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Walked slowly and with heavy, laborious steps; also, worked at something slowly and steadily.
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The exhausted hikers plodded up the last steep mile of the trail.
She plodded through the stack of paperwork late into the night.
A note on using this word
Often used figuratively for tedious, effortful progress, as in "plodding through" a boring task or a slow-moving story.
Words with a similar meaning
trudgedtrekked
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Words with an opposite meaning
dashedsprinted
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