Trudge
verb
To walk slowly with a lot of effort, especially over a difficult surface or while carrying something heavy.
She was trudging through the snow.
Often appears as...
- trudge through
- trudge along
noun
A difficult or laborious walk, typically in an exhausted or dispirited manner.
The long trudge back home
Often appears as...
- long trudge
- uphill trudge
verb
To walk slowly with a lot of effort, especially over a difficult surface or while carrying something heavy.
She was trudging through the snow.
Often appears as...
- trudge through
- trudge along
noun
A difficult or laborious walk, typically in an exhausted or dispirited manner.
The long trudge back home
Often appears as...
- long trudge
- uphill trudge
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Effortful Movement
Use 'trudge' to describe moving with difficulty or weariness, often due to obstacles.
After the grueling hike, they trudged back to camp.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Feelings
'Trudge' often implies a sense of hardship or reluctance felt by the person walking.
He trudged to work, dreading the long day ahead.
Pro Tip 3/3Unpleasant Conditions
Commonly used when someone walks through harsh environments such as snow, rain, or mud.
She trudged through the muddy field, her boots squelching.
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Adventure on the...
Gregg. Gregg is trying to figure out how to bring life to this network. We need people to connect the dots. So, he's looking at ways of safely getting volunteers in there, to go and maintain these platforms as we see them go down. We are talking about elephants and hippos and things trudging over them.
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Could human civilization...
So far we've sent a single spacecraft outside our solar system, trudging along at 0.006% of the speed of light. At that rate, it would take over 2.5 billion years just to get from one end of the galaxy to the other. And then there's the question of human survival.
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Peter Singer: The why...
Just as he gets there, the effort becomes too much, the boulder escapes, rolls all the way down the hill, he has to trudge back down to push it up again, and the same thing happens again and again for all eternity. Does that remind you of a consumer lifestyle,
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Searching for the...
and i'm hiking along a snowy ridgeline overlooking a deep gorge with national geographic explorer prasanji yadav i found another little cave up here we're in the remote spiti valley of northern india it's sunny but below freezing and we're trudging through
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This sea creature...
On the deep sea floor, they comprise the majority of animal biomass, reaching up to 95% in some areas. As these sausage-shaped wonders trudge along, they vacuum up sand, digest the organic matter it contains, and excrete the byproduct.
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Tiny Frog Faces Night...
this amphibian hides deep in the sand but when the conditions are just right he emerges to feed trudging up to 50 yards
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Bull Sharks Upriver PIPE...
mangrove swamp in the Bay of Bengal villagers trudged through a murky river
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Shark Attack in the...
mangrove swamp in the Bay of Bengal villagers trudged through a murky river
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Shark Attack PIPE National...
mangrove swamp in the Bay of Bengal villagers trudged through a murky River
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Best '08! Bull Sharks PIPE...
mangrove swamp in the Bay of Bengal villagers trudged through a murky river
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Adventure on the...
Gregg. Gregg is trying to figure out how to bring life to this network. We need people to connect the dots. So, he's looking at ways of safely getting volunteers in there, to go and maintain these platforms as we see them go down. We are talking about elephants and hippos and things trudging over them.
Video examples
Could human civilization...
So far we've sent a single spacecraft outside our solar system, trudging along at 0.006% of the speed of light. At that rate, it would take over 2.5 billion years just to get from one end of the galaxy to the other. And then there's the question of human survival.
Video examples
Peter Singer: The why...
Just as he gets there, the effort becomes too much, the boulder escapes, rolls all the way down the hill, he has to trudge back down to push it up again, and the same thing happens again and again for all eternity. Does that remind you of a consumer lifestyle,
Video examples
Searching for the...
and i'm hiking along a snowy ridgeline overlooking a deep gorge with national geographic explorer prasanji yadav i found another little cave up here we're in the remote spiti valley of northern india it's sunny but below freezing and we're trudging through
Video examples
This sea creature...
On the deep sea floor, they comprise the majority of animal biomass, reaching up to 95% in some areas. As these sausage-shaped wonders trudge along, they vacuum up sand, digest the organic matter it contains, and excrete the byproduct.
Video examples
Tiny Frog Faces Night...
this amphibian hides deep in the sand but when the conditions are just right he emerges to feed trudging up to 50 yards
Video examples
Bull Sharks Upriver PIPE...
mangrove swamp in the Bay of Bengal villagers trudged through a murky river
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Shark Attack in the...
mangrove swamp in the Bay of Bengal villagers trudged through a murky river
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Shark Attack PIPE National...
mangrove swamp in the Bay of Bengal villagers trudged through a murky River
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Best '08! Bull Sharks PIPE...
mangrove swamp in the Bay of Bengal villagers trudged through a murky river
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Rod Lurie
Israeli Director
Every weekend from, like, 1974 to 1978, I'd trudge over to the Greenwich library, which gathered up almost every major newspaper in the country. I would sit there all day long and read and read and read the reviews. I remember being twelve or thirteen and writing to Judith Crist, Pauline Kael, and Roger Ebert.
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Sarah Gadon
Canadian Actress
It's fun being a princess, but it's not very practical! You're trudging through the forest and the mud and all of the elements. You kind of think, 'How did they do this back then?' Thank God I can put on my Nike trainers and walk around the rest of the day!
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Alice Temperley
British Designer
My mother has always encouraged my creative side. She is a very eclectic, creative woman and looks incredibly glamorous, even when trudging about in wellies. Our family home is full of items from her travels and her amazing etchings and drawings.
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Hugh Dennis
When you go and meet people in far-flung parts of the world who need help, they're not earnest; they're having a laugh and a joke as they transport the water you're buying for them - not trudging around saying serious things.
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Hugh Grant
English Actor
Frankly, I think I'm marvelous in rehearsal! Then you turn the camera on, and it gets stiff and tight. And then you trudge back to your trailer feeling sad. That's been my experience of film acting.
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Mark Fisher
British Writer
Capitalism is what is left when beliefs have collapsed at the level of ritual or symbolic elaboration, and all that is left is the consumer-spectator, trudging through the ruins and the relics.
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Vera Lynn
British Musician
Singing in the jungle was very hot and very sticky, which was a bit hard going. I had a little piano, which they trudged around on the back of a lorry, hoping it would survive the journeys.
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John Ridley
American Director
While most trudge through their days straight-jacketed in the social compact, living for others as much as or more than for themselves, a select few excel.
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Brooke Baldwin
American Journalist
Whether it's summiting Kili or achieving my next work goal - Look forward for a moment, but then keep your head down and trudge on.
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Shirley MacLaine
American Actress
I think the hill one has to trudge in order to understand a man's baggage is more of a trek than I'd like to take right now.
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Rod Lurie
Israeli Director
Every weekend from, like, 1974 to 1978, I'd trudge over to the Greenwich library, which gathered up almost every major newspaper in the country. I would sit there all day long and read and read and read the reviews. I remember being twelve or thirteen and writing to Judith Crist, Pauline Kael, and Roger Ebert.
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Sarah Gadon
Canadian Actress
It's fun being a princess, but it's not very practical! You're trudging through the forest and the mud and all of the elements. You kind of think, 'How did they do this back then?' Thank God I can put on my Nike trainers and walk around the rest of the day!
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Alice Temperley
British Designer
My mother has always encouraged my creative side. She is a very eclectic, creative woman and looks incredibly glamorous, even when trudging about in wellies. Our family home is full of items from her travels and her amazing etchings and drawings.
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Hugh Dennis
When you go and meet people in far-flung parts of the world who need help, they're not earnest; they're having a laugh and a joke as they transport the water you're buying for them - not trudging around saying serious things.
Quote examples
Hugh Grant
English Actor
Frankly, I think I'm marvelous in rehearsal! Then you turn the camera on, and it gets stiff and tight. And then you trudge back to your trailer feeling sad. That's been my experience of film acting.
Quote examples
Mark Fisher
British Writer
Capitalism is what is left when beliefs have collapsed at the level of ritual or symbolic elaboration, and all that is left is the consumer-spectator, trudging through the ruins and the relics.
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Vera Lynn
British Musician
Singing in the jungle was very hot and very sticky, which was a bit hard going. I had a little piano, which they trudged around on the back of a lorry, hoping it would survive the journeys.
Quote examples
John Ridley
American Director
While most trudge through their days straight-jacketed in the social compact, living for others as much as or more than for themselves, a select few excel.
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Brooke Baldwin
American Journalist
Whether it's summiting Kili or achieving my next work goal - Look forward for a moment, but then keep your head down and trudge on.
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Shirley MacLaine
American Actress
I think the hill one has to trudge in order to understand a man's baggage is more of a trek than I'd like to take right now.
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