Meaning & use
wade
To walk through water, mud, or another substance that slows your steps.
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The children waded into the shallow end of the lake to cool off.
Volunteers had to wade through knee-deep floodwater to reach the stranded family.
A note on using this word
Also used figuratively as wade through, meaning to work slowly through something tedious, like paperwork.
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