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Definition: Trudge |
TrudgeNoun1. A long difficult walk. Verb1. Walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud; "Donkeys that plodded wearily in a circle around a gin" D.H. Lawrence. 2. To walk or proceed draggingly, slowly: "Snow buried the streets and covered the slanting rooftops, as John trudged toward St. Peter's.". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "trudge" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
Note: Trudge \Trudge\, intransitive verb. [imperative past participle Trudged; present participle verb or noun Trudging.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: TrudgeSynonyms: footslog (v), pad (v), plod (v), shack (v), slog (v), trail (v), tramp (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Journey | Walk, march, step, tread, pace, plod, wend, go by shank's mare; promenade; trudge, tramp; stalk, stride, straddle, strut, foot it, hoof it, stump, bundle, bowl along, toddle; paddle; tread a path. |
Slowness | Verb: move slowly; adVerb: creep, crawl, lag, slug, drawl, linger, loiter, saunter; plod, trudge, stump along, lumber; trail, drag; dawdle; (be inactive); grovel, worm one's way, steal along; job on, rub on, bundle on; toddle, waddle, wabble, slug, traipse, slouch, shuffle, halt, hobble, limp, caludicate, shamble; flag, falter, trotter, stagger; mince, step short; march in slow time, march in funeral procession; take one's time; hang fire; (be late). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Trudge |
| English words defined with "trudge": Trudged, Trudging. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "trudge": Gibeonite. (references) |
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| "Trudge" is generally used as a lexical verb (base form) -- approximately 39.22% of the time. "Trudge" is used about 51 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 39.22% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 31.37% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Noun (singular) | 29.41% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Total | 100.00% | 51 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
trudge euphoria | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "trudge"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | rrugë e gjatë (distance), ecje e lodhshme, eci me mundim (limp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مشي طويل مجهد, مشى بتثاقل (plod, stump), تشسكع بالشوارع, خاض بالوحل, إجتاز بمشي مجهد. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | стъпвам тежко (stodge, stump along, tramp, trample), стъпвам с мъка, стъпвам бавно, вървя упорито, вървя неотстъпно, дълъг и уморителен път. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 长"跋涉. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vléci se (drag, drag on, drag oneself along, wear on), plahoèit se (plod, toil), namáhavì jít. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | قدم اهسته , راه پیماءی بازحمت , باخستگی راه رفتن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tallustaa (plod, tramp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | se traîner de rue en rue, patauger, marcher péniblement, marcher en traînant les pieds, marche pénible. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | stapfen (clump, plod, stomp, tramp, trample). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | βαδίζω μετά κόπου. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ל"ש"ש (trample, tread), לצעו" בכב"ות. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vánszorog (crawl, plod, to barge along, to drag, to draggle, to lumber, to mog, to plod along, to trudge), vánszorgás (plod), cammog (clump, plod, to plod, to plod along, to shamble, to trail, to trudge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | trascinarsi a fatica, percorrere faticosamente, arrancare (hobble, plod, toil). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 무거운 걸음. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | troagyraght (hike, hiking, march, marching, tramp, tramp walk), troagyr (plod). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | udgetray nadar com o estilo de, marcha (going, headway, hike, march, marching, pace, process, run, running, walk, walking), caminhar penosamente (plod, traipse), arrastar-se (crawl, creep, drag, draggle, grovel, plod, scramble, slither, traipse). (various references) mers târşâit, mers obosit, merge cu greu (plough under, toil). (various references) утомительная прогулка (traipse), трудный путь, идти с трудом (slug). (various references) tabanati, s mukom pešačiti, naporno pešačenje, gaziti (infringe, step, tread, wade, walk), gacati (slush, stodge, wade). (various references) caminata (hike, March, ramble, walk). (various references) traska (foot it, pad, plod, traipse, tramp, trot), lunka (amble, jog, jog along, jog on, plod, tramp, trot). (various references) zorla yürümek (slog away, slog on), yorucu yürüyüş (slog), yorgun argın yürümek, yorgun argın yürüme. (various references) стомлива прогулянка, вирушати (be off, depart, leave, march off, march out, pull off, put off, sally forth, set forth, set off, set out, start, wend), плентатися (dodder, drawl, inch along, lag, navigate, plug along, scuff, scuffle, shamble), довгий важкий шлях. (various references) sự lê bước, sự đi mệt nhọc. (various references) troedio (foot, tread). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "trudge": trudged, trudgen, trudgens, trudgeon, trudgeons, trudger, trudgers, trudges. (additional references) | |
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"Trudge" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Crudge, krudge, tredge, Tredget, Tregoe, trouge, trud, truddle, trude, Truden, trudg, Trudgett, trudje, trudle, trugde, truge, Truger, tudge, turde. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "trudge" (pronounced tru"j) |
| 3 | -r u" j | begrudge, drudge, grudge. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-g-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: trued, urged. | |
-2 letters: dreg, drug, duet, dure, grue, gude, rude, rued, true, trug, turd, urge. | |
-3 letters: due, dug, erg, ged, get, gut, red, reg, ret, rue, rug, rut, ted, teg, tug, urd. | |
-4 letters: de, ed, er, et, re, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-g-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: drugget, grouted, grunted, trudged, trudgen, trudger, trudges. | |
+2 letters: budgeter, daughter, druggets, gestured, graduate, gruntled, grutched, guttered, outraged, ragouted, trudgens, trudgeon, trudgers. | |
+3 letters: budgetary, budgeteer, budgeters, daughters, detouring, detruding, doughtier, draughted, druggiest, drugstore, extruding, fraughted, graduated, graduates, gratitude, intrigued, ligatured, negritude, outargued, outglared, outranged, regulated, ruggedest, struggled, trudgeons, undergirt, uprighted. | |
+4 letters: budgeteers, corrugated, denaturing, depurating, deregulate, disgruntle, dramaturge, draughtier, droughtier, drugstores, expurgated, fulgurated, granulated, gratitudes, gratulated, grubstaked, guaranteed, guarantied, multigrade, negritudes, objurgated, outbragged, outcharged, outdragged, outfigured, outgrinned, outgrossed, outreading, restudying, subrogated, surrogated, thundering, turgidness, untreading, upgathered. | |
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