wade

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An act of wading.
    — We had to be careful during our dangerous wade across the river.
  2. Obsolete form of woad. alt-of,obsolete,uncountable
    — Woad or Wade is a very rich Commodity
  3. A ford; a place to cross a river. colloquial
动词 v.
  1. To walk through water or something that impedes progress. intransitive
    — So eagerly the fiend […] / With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, / And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
  2. To progress with difficulty. intransitive
    — to wade through a dull book
  3. To walk through (water or similar impediment); to pass through by wading. transitive
    — wading swamps and rivers
  4. To gleam intermittently through clouds or mist.
    — I saw my Meg come linking o'er the lee; I saw my Meg, but Maggy saw nae me: For yet the sun was wading through the mist, And she was close upon me ere she wist.
  5. To enter recklessly. intransitive
    — to wade into a fight or a debate

词形变化

wades present,singular,third-person wading participle,present waded participle,past waded past wades plural

词汇关系

衍生词
St Nicholas at Wade waddle
相关词
wade in wade through

词源

From Middle English waden, from Old English wadan, from Proto-West Germanic *wadan, from Proto-Germanic *wadaną (“to go, pass through”), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂dʰ- (“to go”). Cognates include Saterland Frisian waadje (“to wade”), West Frisian wâdzje (“to wade”), Dutch waden (“to wade”), German Low German waden (“to wade”), German waten (“to wade”), Danish vade (“to wade”), Swedish vada (“to wade”), Icelandic vaða (“to wade”), and Latin vādō (“go, walk; rush”).
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