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wade through something

1. to read detailed or complicated information. We don't have enough staff to wade through the data. If you can wade through the ads, there's useful information here about the history of the Internet.

2. to move through a large group. We waded through a crowd of thousands. The players have to wade through a sea of fans after games.

Etymology: based on the literal meaning of wade (= to walk in water that is not deep)

See also: through, wade

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To be sure I often broke this rule, as people are apt to do with rules of the kind; it was not possible for a boy to wade through heavy articles relating to English politics and economics, but I do not think I left any paper upon a literary topic unread, and I did read enough politics, especially in Blackwood's, to be of Tory opinions; they were very fit opinions for a boy, and they did not exact of me any change in regard to the slavery question. My Literary Passions by Howells,William Dean View in context With every daybreak the rising sun had to wade through a crimson stream, luminous and sinister, like the spilt blood of celestial bodies murdered during the night. The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context But the race began not in the ring, but two hundred yards away from it, and in that part of the course was the first obstacle, a dammed-up stream, seven feet in breadth, which the racers could leap or wade through as they preferred. Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context More results

To be sure I often broke this rule, as people are apt to do with rules of the kind; it was not possible for a boy to wade through heavy articles relating to English politics and economics, but I do not think I left any paper upon a literary topic unread, and I did read enough politics, especially in Blackwood's, to be of Tory opinions; they were very fit opinions for a boy, and they did not exact of me any change in regard to the slavery question.

My Literary Passions by Howells,William Dean View in context

With every daybreak the rising sun had to wade through a crimson stream, luminous and sinister, like the spilt blood of celestial bodies murdered during the night.

The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context

But the race began not in the ring, but two hundred yards away from it, and in that part of the course was the first obstacle, a dammed-up stream, seven feet in breadth, which the racers could leap or wade through as they preferred.

Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context

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