Waded vs Waged - What's the difference?
waded | waged |
(wade)
to walk through water or something that impedes progress.
* Milton
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter VIII
to progress with difficulty
* Dryden
* Davenant
to walk through (water or similar impediment); to pass through by wading
To enter recklessly.
(wage)
An amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually expressed on an hourly basis.
To wager, bet.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:My life I never held but as a pawn / To wage against thy enemies.
:(Hakluyt)
To expose oneself to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:too weak to wage an instant trial with the king
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:to wake and wage a danger profitless
To employ for wages; to hire.
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*:Thenne said Arthur I wille goo with yow / Nay said the kynges ye shalle not at this tyme / for ye haue moche to doo yet in these landes / therfore we wille departe / and with the grete goodes that we haue goten in these landes by youre yeftes we shalle wage good knyghtes & withstande the kynge Claudas malyce
*(Raphael Holinshed) (1529-1580)
*:abundance of treasure which he had in store, wherewith he might wage soldiers
(label) To conduct or carry out (a war or other contest).
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:[He pondered] which of all his sons was fit / To reign and wage immortal war with wit.
*(Isaac Taylor) (1787–1865)
*:The two are waging war, and the one triumphs by the destruction of the other.
(label) To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.
*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:Thoumust wage thy works for wealth.
To give security for the performance of.
:(Burrill)
As verbs the difference between waded and waged
is that waded is (wade) while waged is (wage).waded
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(head)Anagrams
*wade
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) wadan'', from (etyl) "to go". Cognates include Latin ''vadere "go, walk; rush" (whence English invade, evade).Verb
(wad)- 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.
- 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.
- wading swamps and rivers
- to wade into a fight or a debate
