Trudged vs Glided - What's the difference?
trudged | glided |
(trudge)
To walk wearily with heavy, slow steps.
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To trudge along or over a route etc.
(US) (glide)
To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly.
* Wordsworth
* 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life) Chapter VI
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To fly unpowered, as of an aircraft.
To cause to glide.
(phonetics) To pass with a glide, as the voice.
The act of gliding.
(linguistics) Semivowel
(fencing) An attack or preparatory movement made by sliding down the opponent’s blade, keeping it in constant contact.
A bird, the glede or kite.
As verbs the difference between trudged and glided
is that trudged is (trudge) while glided is (us) (glide).trudged
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Verb
(head)trudge
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Verb
(trudg)- This famous archaeological site marks the farthest limit of human migration out of Africa in the middle Stone Age—the outer edge of our knowledge of the cosmos. I trudge to the caves in a squall.
Derived terms
* trudgerReferences
*glided
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
*glide
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Verb
- The river glideth at his own sweet will.
- The water over which the boats glided was black and smooth, rising into huge foamless billows, the more terrible because they were silent.
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