TRUDGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does trudge mean? 

• TRUDGE (noun)
  The noun TRUDGE has 1 sense:

1. a long difficult walk

  Familiarity information: TRUDGE used as a noun is very rare.

• TRUDGE (verb)
  The verb TRUDGE has 1 sense:

1. walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud

  Familiarity information: TRUDGE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRUDGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A long difficult walk

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("trudge" is a kind of...):

hike; hiking; tramp (a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure)

Derivation:

trudge (walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud)

• TRUDGE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they trudge    ... he / she / it trudges   
Past simple: trudged   
Past participle: trudged   
-ing form: trudging   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

footslog; pad; plod; slog; tramp; trudge

Context example:

Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone

Hypernyms (to "trudge" is one way to...):

walk (use one's feet to advance; advance by steps)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "trudge"):

slop; slosh; splash; splosh; squelch; squish (walk through mud or mire)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Sentence example:

They trudge up the hill

Derivation:

trudge (a long difficult walk)

trudger (someone who walks in a laborious heavy-footed manner)

 Context examples 

Well, we can't have it, so don't let us grumble but shoulder our bundles and trudge along as cheerfully as Marmee does.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

My aunt, the best and most cheerful of nurses, would trudge after us, a moving mass of shawls and pillows.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“A more perfect compound of the bully, coward, and sneak than Master Silas Brown I have seldom met with,” remarked Holmes as we trudged along together.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They went out, locking the door of the theatre behind them; and Utterson, once more leaving the servants gathered about the fire in the hall, trudged back to his office to read the two narratives in which this mystery was now to be explained.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

It was no easy or light thing to journey through this great forest, which was some twenty miles from east to west and a good sixteen from Bramshaw Woods in the north to Lymington in the south. Alleyne, however, had the good fortune to fall in with a woodman, axe upon shoulder, trudging along in the very direction that he wished to go.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He hardly opened his lips during that weary trudge across the moor, nor would he enter the school when he reached it, but went on to Mackleton Station, whence he could send some telegrams.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You shall trudge away, and do your errands in the rain, and if you catch your death and ruin your bonnet, it's no more than you deserve.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I began to picture to myself, as a scrap of newspaper intelligence, my being found dead in a day or two, under some hedge; and I trudged on miserably, though as fast as I could, until I happened to pass a little shop, where it was written up that ladies' and gentlemen's wardrobes were bought, and that the best price was given for rags, bones, and kitchen-stuff.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The walk revived her spirits, and flattering herself that she had made good bargains, she trudged home again, after buying a very young lobster, some very old asparagus, and two boxes of acid strawberries.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

While Jo trudged beside him, feeling as if her place had always been there, and wondering how she ever could have chosen any other lot. Of course, she was the first to speak—intelligibly, I mean, for the emotional remarks which followed her impetuous Oh, yes! were not of a coherent or reportable character.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)