trudge

trudge along

1. To walk onward with heavy, laborious steps. We trudged along through the thick mud, weighed down as much by hunger and fatigue as by our packs. Are we almost there yet? We've been trudging along for over an hour!
2. To walk over the length of something with heavy, laborious steps. I trudged along the sidewalk that led to my office building, dreading the confrontation I would have with the boss. The kids trudged along the trail behind their parents in sullen silence.
3. To make progress at a slow, arduous pace. The work was horribly tedious, but I just put on my headphones and kept trudging along. I know the last few weeks have been hard for the whole team, but we've got to trudge along to the end.
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trudge through

1. To walk through some environment, substance, weather, etc., with heavy, laborious steps. We trudged through the thick mud, weighed down as much by hunger and fatigue as by our packs. I hate having to trudge through this awful wind each day on the way to work. We trudged through the mountains for hours in search of our lost comrade.
2. To progress through (some task or activity) at a slow, arduous pace. The data-entry work was horribly tedious, but I just put on my headphones and kept trudging through the spreadsheet. I know the last few weeks have been hard for the whole team, but we've got to trudge through to the end.
See also: through, trudge
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

trudge along

to plod along on foot. It seemed as if we trudged along for miles. As we trudged along, we forgot how cold it was.
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trudge through something

 
1. Lit. to walk through snow, sand, or something similar. We trudged through the hot sand all the way down the beach. I used to have to trudge through snow like this all winter to get to school.
2. Fig. to work one's way through something difficult. I hate to have to trudge through these reports on the weekend. I have to trudge through a lot of work before I can go home.
See also: through, trudge
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • trudge along
  • trudge through
  • track (something) into (some place)
  • cake (someone or something) with (something)
  • cake with
  • mud out
  • track in
  • be as clear as mud
  • (as) clear as mud
  • clear as mud
References in periodicals archive
Getting all those people, either before/after a hard day's work, shopping or Sunday eating/ drinking, having to trudge to Queen Square is absolutely ridiculous!!
City's bus rerouting is crazy beyond words; Get in touch - tell us what you think Email: letters@liverpoolecho.co.uk Phone: 0151 227 2000 Twitter: @LIVECHONEWS Facebook: facebook.com/theliverpoolecho Post: Liverpool ECHO, PO Box 48, Old Hall Street, Liverpool L69 3EB
As I trudge home, Garrett calls out that we forgot to watch Jerry.
Operation Christmas Kiss: what's it like to be the only girl who's never been kissed? Olivia--and only Olivia--knows
On the lake's shallow southern shore--home to the most popular resorts--the water retreated from shore by 150 to 300 feet, forcing bathers to trudge through the mud before every swim.
Europe's scorching summer: was global warming responsible for the deadly heat?
'Aha, once again we've proved that women are better than men,' they crow as they trudge back into Camp I.
Women on top of the world: Yana Bey encounters heartbreak and triumph as a team of Indian women conquer Argan Kangri, an unclimbed peak in the Karakoram Range
There, barely discernible figures trudge toward a mountain; above, a small brownish slice of sky remains untouched by the ecstatically colorful rays of the sun.
Amy Sillman
It is first when one starts to trudge, with the author, up muddy paths and down slippery shale slopes, that one begins to sense a certain disjunction between the "two books." The first book does indeed establish a reasonable frame within which to understand the second.
Landscape and Identity: Geographies of Nation and Class in England. (Reviews)
Don't just trudge through the sludge of poorly written finance books that weren't written with you in mind.
Building Black Wealth
The standard, 8-foot-wide, double-loaded corridor-- often unremarkable and Disorienting--leaves residents with no place to congregate near their rooms and no desire to trudge all the way down to a central hub.
BEST PRACTICES
Red-and-yellow long-necked birds trudge through knee-deep pools of brown muck.
Peril in Paradise
It has been a hard trudge, with fainting, bandaging and death.
To black women
I meekly started to trudge back home, very narrowly escaping serious injury when a diaper service truck whipped past me.
Seeing green
And then, for the next nine minutes, credits trudge up a black screen.
Seeing Through Movies
The fountain adds to this majestic view Under a rich sky painted white and blue For bruised clouds have retreated for a while, The deep snows now just a memory, Gorsedd Gardens in the background As shoppers trudge towards busy city streets, Most oblivious to the beauty before their eyes.
City Daffodils in March; VIEWPOINTS
On the way home we trudge through The snow which lay thick and even Upon the pavements, a bag of hot greasy Chips wrapped in newspaper for our supper Surprisingly what a spot of 'day-dreaming' Conjures up, certainly does you a power of good!
DAY-DREAMING
RODGERS Howard On May 18, Howard (Charlie Trudge) at home after a long illness borne with great courage and dignity.
DEATHS