Definitions for wades

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wades wade

Spelling: [weyd]

IPA: /weɪd/

Wades is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 66 anagrams from letters in wades (adesw).

Definitions for wades

noun

1. an act or instance of wading:
2. Benjamin Franklin, 1800–78, U.S. lawyer and antislavery politician.
3. a male given name.

Verb phrases

1. wade in/into, to begin energetically. to attack strongly:

verb (used with object)

1. to pass through or cross by wading; ford:

verb (used without object)

1. to walk in water, when partially immersed:
2. to play in water:
3. to walk through water, snow, sand, or any other substance that impedes free motion or offers resistance to movement:
4. to make one's way slowly or laboriously (often followed by through):
5. Obsolete. to go or proceed.

Origin of wades

before 900; Middle English waden to go, wade, Old English wadan to go; cognate with German waten, Old Norse vatha; akin to Old English wæd ford, sea, Latin vadum shoal, ford, vādere to go, ru

Examples for wades

Safechuck added his name to a suit originally filed by wade Robson in May 2013.

"I s'pose you know more'n your father and mother," suggested wade.

"Does beat all how she kin do it," thought wade, listlessly.

To be sure, a more activist Supreme Court could still have decided to wade into the waters and decide this issue once and for all.

In the eloquent words of colonial preacher John Winthrop, “When a man is to wade through deep water, there is required tallness.”

This time, Mrs. wade admitted bravely to herself that her jealousy was not for Billy.

They were busily implementing these in cases like Roe v. wade when a right-wing insurgency took them by surprise.

"A wade check is always honored," was his cryptic assertion.

Mrs. wade sighed as she remembered how everyone had flocked around Norah.

There are no emails for us to wade through—even if we were champing at the bits.