wade

The word “wade” has 1 syllable: wade

It's pronounced as /weɪd/


What is synonym and antonym for wade?

In the thesaurus, “wade” has 60 synonyms and 39 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for wade along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for wade

  • attack
  • attempt
  • bang away
  • bathe
  • dig in
  • drive
  • drudge
  • eke out
  • endeavor
  • essay
  • exercise
  • exert
  • fag
  • fall to
  • ford
  • get feet wet
  • get stuck in
  • go for
  • grub
  • hump
  • hustle
  • initiate
  • jump in
  • knuckle down
  • labor
  • launch
  • light into
  • moil
  • overexert
  • overwork
  • paddle
  • pitch in
  • plod
  • plow
  • plug
  • put out
  • scrabble
  • scratch
  • set about
  • set to
  • slave
  • slog
  • splash
  • start
  • strain
  • strive
  • struggle
  • stumble
  • sweat
  • tackle
  • tear into
  • toil
  • travail
  • trek
  • trudge
  • try
  • tug
  • walk
  • work
  • work through

Antonyms for wade

Meanings of wade

  • noun
    1. An act of wading.
    2. A ford; a place to cross a river.
    3. The plant Isatis tinctoria.
    4. The blue dye made from the leaves of the plant.
  • verb
    1. To walk through water or something that impedes progress.
    2. To progress with difficulty.
    3. To walk through (water or similar impediment); to pass through by wading.
    4. To enter recklessly.

Example Sentences

  • The hiker decided to wade across the shallow stream to reach the other side.
  • As the tide receded, beachgoers could easily wade in the gentle waves along the shore.
  • The fisherman carefully chose a spot where he could comfortably wade into the river for the best catch.
  • After the heavy rain, the neighborhood children had to wade through the flooded streets to get home.
  • The explorer had to wade through the swampy terrain, facing challenges with each step.

On this page you'll find 99 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to wade, such as: attack, attempt, avoid, bang away, bask, bathe, be lazy.

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Related Words

labor

  • abortion
  • accouchement
  • activity
  • affair
  • aftereffect
  • aftermath
  • apprentice
  • article
  • attack
  • attempt
  • bang away
  • bear
  • beast
  • birth
  • birth pang
  • birth pangs
  • blue-collar worker
  • bother
  • breadwinner
  • burden
  • by-product
  • caesarean section
  • cesarean section
  • childbearing
  • childbed
  • childbirth
  • chore
  • commodity
  • conclusion
  • confinement
  • consequence
  • contraction
  • contractions
  • corollary
  • cultivate
  • daily grind
  • delivery
  • derivative
  • development
  • dig in
  • diligence
  • dint
  • donkeywork
  • drive
  • drudge
  • drudgery
  • duty
  • effect
  • effort
  • eke out
  • elbow grease
  • employee
  • employment
  • endeavor
  • energy
  • entry
  • essay
  • exercise
  • exert
  • exert oneself
  • exertion
  • expenditure
  • fag
  • fatigue
  • fling
  • force
  • fruit
  • giving birth
  • go
  • goods
  • grind
  • grind away
  • grub
  • gruntwork
  • hand
  • handcraft
  • handicraft
  • handiwork
  • hard hat
  • headache
  • heavy lifting
  • help
  • helper
  • hireling
  • hump
  • hustle
  • industry
  • issue
  • job
  • killer
  • knuckle down
  • laborer
  • learner
  • line
  • load
  • lucubration
  • lying-in
  • merchandise
  • might
  • miscarriage
  • moil
  • moonlight
  • muscle
  • natural childbirth
  • nuisance
  • object
  • obligation
  • offshoot
  • offspring
  • operation
  • outcome
  • outgrowth
  • output
  • overexert
  • overwork
  • pains
  • parturition
  • pass
  • pitch in
  • plod
  • plow
  • plug
  • plug away
  • pour it on
  • power
  • pregnancy
  • prentice
  • produce
  • product
  • production
  • proletarian
  • puissance
  • pull
  • push
  • put out
  • rank and file
  • residual
  • responsibility
  • result
  • resultant
  • routine
  • scrabble
  • scratch
  • sequel
  • sequence
  • shot
  • side effect
  • side reaction
  • slave
  • slavery
  • slog
  • spadework
  • spin-off
  • stab
  • strain
  • stress
  • strive
  • struggle
  • sweat
  • sweat blood
  • tedium
  • tend
  • thing
  • throes
  • toil
  • toiler
  • travail
  • treadmill
  • trial
  • trouble
  • trudge
  • try
  • tug
  • upshot
  • wade
  • wares
  • weight
  • whack
  • while
  • work
  • work force
  • work oneself to the bone
  • worker
  • working people
  • yield

paddle

  • assail
  • assault
  • attack
  • bash
  • baste
  • bat
  • batter
  • beat
  • beat up on
  • belabor
  • belt
  • beset
  • birch
  • blackjack
  • bludgeon
  • boat
  • box
  • buffet
  • bung up
  • bust
  • cane
  • canoe
  • chop
  • clobber
  • clout
  • club
  • cowhide
  • crack
  • cruise
  • cudgel
  • cuff
  • curry
  • cut water
  • do
  • drift
  • drive
  • drub
  • feather
  • fib
  • flagellate
  • flog
  • fustigate
  • gore
  • hammer
  • hide
  • hit
  • horsewhip
  • kayak
  • knock
  • lace
  • lacerate
  • lam
  • lambast
  • lambaste
  • lash
  • lather
  • lay on
  • leather
  • lick
  • maim
  • mangle
  • maul
  • mutilate
  • navigate
  • oar
  • paddlewheel
  • paste
  • pelt
  • pistol-whip
  • pole
  • pommel
  • pound
  • propeller
  • pull
  • pummel
  • punch
  • punch out
  • punt
  • raid
  • rawhide
  • row
  • run rapids
  • rush
  • scourge
  • scull
  • sky an oar
  • slam
  • slap
  • slate
  • slog
  • slop
  • smack
  • smash
  • sock
  • spank
  • splash
  • stir
  • storm
  • strap
  • swat
  • sweep
  • swipe
  • switch
  • tan
  • thrash
  • thresh
  • thump
  • thwack
  • tromp
  • wade
  • wallop
  • whack
  • whale
  • wham
  • whap
  • whip
  • whomp
  • whop
  • whup
  • work over
  • wound

fag

  • annoy
  • attack
  • back
  • bang away
  • bankrupt
  • be disregarded
  • be neglected
  • bear down
  • bedraggle
  • biri
  • bore
  • break
  • brood
  • burden
  • burn out
  • bush
  • bust
  • butt
  • cancer stick
  • cause ennui
  • cig
  • cloy
  • coffin nail
  • collapse
  • conk out
  • crawl
  • cubeb
  • cultivate
  • debilitate
  • decline
  • deject
  • deplete
  • depress
  • desire
  • despond
  • deteriorate
  • die on vine
  • dig in
  • disable
  • disgust
  • dishearten
  • dispirit
  • displease
  • distress
  • do in
  • do up
  • drain
  • draw
  • drive
  • droop
  • drop
  • drowse
  • drudge
  • dwindle
  • ebb
  • eke out
  • endeavor
  • enervate
  • enfeeble
  • ennui
  • essay
  • exasperate
  • exercise
  • exert
  • exert oneself
  • exhaust
  • fade
  • fag out
  • fail
  • faint
  • fall off
  • fatigue
  • fizzle
  • fizzle out
  • flag
  • fold
  • frazzle
  • gasper
  • give out
  • glut
  • go soft
  • go stale
  • go to pieces
  • grieve
  • grind
  • grow tired
  • grow weary
  • grub
  • hanker
  • harass
  • have had enough
  • hump
  • hunger
  • hustle
  • impoverish
  • irk
  • irritate
  • jade
  • kill
  • knock out
  • knuckle down
  • labor
  • languish
  • leave one cold
  • long
  • lose interest
  • make discontented
  • moil
  • nauseate
  • oppress
  • outwear
  • overburden
  • overdo
  • overexert
  • overextend
  • overfatigue
  • overstrain
  • overtax
  • overtire
  • overwork
  • pain
  • pall
  • peter out
  • pine
  • pitch in
  • plague
  • plod
  • plow
  • plug
  • plug away
  • poop
  • poop out
  • pour it on
  • prostrate
  • puff
  • put out
  • put to sleep
  • reefer
  • repine
  • rot
  • run ragged
  • sag
  • sap
  • scrabble
  • scratch
  • sicken
  • sigh
  • sink
  • slave
  • slog
  • smoke
  • snivel
  • sorrow
  • strain
  • strive
  • struggle
  • succumb
  • suck dry
  • suffer
  • sweat
  • sweat blood
  • take
  • take it out of
  • tax
  • tend
  • tire
  • tire out
  • tobacco
  • toil
  • travail
  • trudge
  • try
  • try the patience of
  • tucker
  • tucker out
  • tug
  • use up
  • vex
  • wade
  • wash out
  • waste
  • waste away
  • weaken
  • wear
  • wear down
  • wear out
  • wear to a frazzle
  • weary
  • weigh
  • wilt
  • wither
  • work
  • work oneself to the bone
  • worry
  • yawn
  • yearn

wallow

  • abandon
  • abyss
  • alcove
  • alveolus
  • basin
  • bask
  • bathe in
  • be immersed
  • blunder
  • borehole
  • bowl
  • bumble
  • burrow
  • cave
  • cavern
  • cavity
  • chasm
  • chuckhole
  • cleft
  • concavity
  • crater
  • delight
  • deliver
  • dent
  • depression
  • dimple
  • dint
  • ditch
  • enjoy
  • excavation
  • falter
  • flog
  • flounder
  • fumble
  • furrow
  • get stuck
  • give up
  • glory
  • gouge
  • groove
  • grovel
  • gulf
  • gutter
  • hole
  • hollow
  • humor
  • immerse
  • impression
  • imprint
  • indentation
  • indenture
  • indulge
  • indulge oneself
  • lie
  • limp
  • loll
  • lumber
  • lurch
  • luxuriate
  • move around in
  • muddle
  • niche
  • nook
  • notch
  • opening
  • overdo
  • overindulge
  • pamper
  • pit
  • plod
  • pocket
  • posthole
  • pothole
  • recess
  • reel
  • relish
  • revel
  • roll
  • roll about
  • roll around in
  • rollick
  • savor
  • shamble
  • shuffle
  • sinkhole
  • socket
  • splash around
  • spoil
  • sprawl
  • stagger
  • struggle
  • stumble
  • surrender
  • sway
  • take pleasure
  • teeter
  • toss
  • totter
  • trench
  • trough
  • trudge
  • tumble
  • vacuity
  • vacuum
  • valley
  • void
  • wade
  • water hole
  • well
  • welter
  • yield

wallowing

  • abandoning
  • bask
  • basking
  • bathe in
  • be immersed
  • blunder
  • blundering
  • bumbling
  • delight
  • delighting
  • delivering
  • enjoy
  • enjoying
  • faltering
  • flogging
  • flounder
  • fumbling
  • get stuck
  • giving up
  • glory
  • grovel
  • groveling
  • grovelling
  • humor
  • immerse
  • indulge oneself
  • indulging
  • lie
  • limping
  • loll
  • lumbering
  • lurch
  • lurching
  • luxuriate
  • luxuriating
  • move around in
  • muddling
  • overdoing
  • overindulging
  • pamper
  • plodding
  • reel
  • reeling
  • relish
  • relishing
  • revel
  • reveling
  • revelling
  • roll
  • roll about
  • roll around in
  • rollick
  • rolling
  • savoring
  • savouring
  • shambling
  • shuffling
  • splash around
  • spoil
  • sprawl
  • stagger
  • staggering
  • struggling
  • stumble
  • stumbling
  • surrendering
  • sway
  • swaying
  • take pleasure
  • teetering
  • toss
  • totter
  • tottering
  • trudging
  • tumble
  • wade
  • welter
  • weltering
  • yielding

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