wade

1. (intransitive) To walk through water or something that impedes progress.Examples: "So eagerly the fiend […] / With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, / And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies."; "After breakfast the men set out to hunt, while the women went to a large pool of warm water covered with a green scum and filled with billions of tadpoles. They waded in to where the water was about a foot deep and lay down in the mud. They remained there from one to two hours and then returned to the cliff."intransitive

2. (intransitive) To progress with difficulty.Examples: "to wade through a dull book"; "And wades through fumes, and gropes his way."; "The king's admirable conduct has waded through all these difficulties."intransitive

3. (transitive) To walk through (water or similar impediment); to pass through by wading.Examples: "wading swamps and rivers"transitive

4. (of the sun or moon) To gleam intermittently through clouds or mist.Examples: "I saw my Meg come linking o'er the lee; I saw my Meg, but Maggy saw nae me: For yet the sun was wading through the mist, And she was close upon me ere she wist."; "... the pale light of a crescent moon wading among the black and lowering clouds."; "When sunshine has a scorching and enervating effect on man, during the greater part of the day, the next day will be cloudy and perhaps rainy. When the sun wades through clouds of any kind, rain may or may not follow;"

5. (intransitive) To enter recklessly.Examples: "to wade into a fight or a debate"intransitive