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English Dictionary: trudge by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
trudge
n
  1. a long difficult walk
v
  1. walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud; "Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone"
    Synonym(s): slog, footslog, plod, trudge, pad, tramp
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Trudge \Trudge\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Trudged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Trudging}.] [Perhaps of Scand. origin, and originally
      meaning, to walk on snowshoes; cf. dial. Sw. truga, trudja, a
      snowshoe, Norw. truga, Icel. [thorn]r[umac]ga.]
      To walk or march with labor; to jog along; to move wearily.
  
               And trudged to Rome upon my naked feet.   --Dryden.
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