trudge

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Pronunciation

• (RP, America) IPA: /tɹʌdʒ/

Noun

trudge (plural trudges)

1. A tramp, i.e. a long and tiring walk.

Translations

• French: marcher
• German: stapfen

Verb

trudge (trudges, present participle trudging; past and past participle trudged)

1. (intransitive) To walk wearily with heavy, slow steps.
   • 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)

     This famous archaeological site marks the farthest limit of human migration out of Africa in the middle Stone Age—the outer edge of our knowledge of the cosmos. I trudge to the caves in a squall.

2. (transitive) To trudge along or over a route etc.

Translations

• German: schleppen, trotten, stapfen
• Russian: тащи́ться

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