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plural trudges
A tramp, i.e. a long and tiring walk. quotations examples
The morning after the landslip, with rain still pouring down, it was an unpleasant trudge through deep mud to get there.
2020 September 9, Paul Clifton, “Heavy rainfall causes landslip in Hampshire: At the scene...”, in Rail, page 10
third-person singular simple present trudges, present participle trudging, simple past and past participle trudged
(intransitive) To walk wearily with heavy, slow steps. quotations examples
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.
2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)
(transitive) To trudge along or over a route etc. examples