Trudge
[trʌdʒ]
Definition
(v. i.) To walk or march with labor; to jog along; to move wearily.
Edited by Leopold
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Travel (on foot), tramp, march (heavily), jog on.
Edited by Ervin
Definition
v.i. to travel on foot: to travel with labour or effort: to march heavily on.—n. a weary walk.
Typed by Josephine
Examples
- My aunt, the best and most cheerful of nurses, would trudge after us, a moving mass of shawls and pillows. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- 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. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- We trudge in the treadmill and call it love of our ancient institutions. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Well, we can't have it, so don't let us grumble but shoulder our bundles and trudge along as cheerfully as Marmee does. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- 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. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The honoured parent steering Northward, had not gone far, when he was joined by another disciple of Izaak Walton, and the two trudged on together. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- She actually trudged away in her grey cloak at a sturdy pace, and turned the corner, and was gone. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- 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. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The two men trudged on, side by side, in silence, full three miles. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Nothing had been heard of her at Mr Boffin's house since she trudged off. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He trudged a little further; and looking into the distance before him, stopped again. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Trudging round the country and tiring of myself out, I shall keep the deadness off, and get my own bread by my own labour. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- These are the thanks he gets for trudging about three mortal weeks from house-painter to upholsterer, from cabinet-maker to charwoman. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- But see, the sun is up, so, as it is no use trudging about in wet clothes, we had better dry them. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
Typist: Sharif