trudge Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a long difficult walk
  2. verb walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud
    footslog; tramp; plod; slog; pad.
    • Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone

WordNet

Trudge intransitive verb
Etymology
Perhaps of Scand. origin, and originally meaning, to walk on snowshoes; cf. dial. Sw. truga, trudja, a snowshoe, Norw. truga, Icel. þr&umac;ga.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Trudged ; present participle & verbal noun Trudging
Definitions
  1. To walk or march with labor; to jog along; to move wearily.
    And trudged to Rome upon my naked feet. Dryden.

Webster 1913