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Word entry · 4 letters

plod

Best crossword clue

"Walk heavily"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /plɒd/Part of speech noun, verbSorted dlopStarts with PEnds with D1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. the act of walking with a slow heavy gait

Word origin

From Middle English *plodden (found only in derivative plodder), probably originally a splash through water and mud, from plodde, pludde (“a puddle”) (whence modern plud). Compare Scots plod, plodge, plodder, dialectal Dutch plodden, plodderen, dialectal German ploddern, Danish pladder (“mire”).

Used in a sentence

  • We started at a brisk walk and ended at a plod.
  • Germany can’t afford to stick to the stately plod into decline that Merkel initiated any longer. Merz will have to act fast, and break things to pull the country out of the quagmire it finds itself in.
  • The beast that bears me, tired with my woe, Plods dully on, to bear that weight in me,

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