MEANING
To walk slowly with heavy steps, especially through fatigue or difficult ground.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- trudge uphill
- trudge through mud
On the page
She trudged uphill with the last box.
They trudged through the mud after the lights vanished.
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Word forms
- Base
- trudge
- Past tense
- trudged
- Past participle
- trudged
- Present participle
- trudging
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- trudge
- Present continuous
- am/is/are trudging
- Present perfect
- have/has trudged
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been trudging
- Past
- trudged
- Past continuous
- was/were trudging
- Past perfect
- had trudged
- Past perfect continuous
- had been trudging
- Future
- will trudge
- Future continuous
- will be trudging
- Future perfect
- will have trudged
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been trudging
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: trudge; trudges; trudged; trudged; trudging Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: trudges.
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