Wade

verb (used without object), waded, wading.
1.
to walk in water, when partially immersed:
He wasn’t swimming, he was wading.
2.
to play in water:
The children were wading in the pool most of the afternoon.
3.
to walk through water, snow, sand, or any other substance that impedes free motion or offers resistance to movement:
to wade through the mud.
4.
to make one’s way slowly or laboriously (often followed by through):
to wade through a dull book.
5.
Obsolete. to go or proceed.
verb (used with object), waded, wading.
6.
to pass through or cross by wading; ford:
to wade a stream.
noun
7.
an act or instance of wading:
We went for a wade in the shallows.
Verb phrases
8.
wade in/into,

to begin energetically.
to attack strongly:
to wade into a thoughtless child; to wade into a mob of rioters.

noun
1.
Benjamin Franklin, 1800–78, U.S. lawyer and antislavery politician.
2.
a male given name.
verb
1.
to walk with the feet immersed in (water, a stream, etc): the girls waded the river at the ford
2.
(intransitive) often foll by through. to proceed with difficulty: to wade through a book
3.
(intransitive; foll by in or into) to attack energetically
noun
4.
the act or an instance of wading
noun
1.
(Sarah) Virginia. born 1945, English tennis player; won three Grand Slam singles titles: US Open (1968), Australian Open (1972), and Wimbledon (1977)