Tra từ trudge - Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

trudge/trʌdʒ/ verb [INTRANSITIVE ALWAYS + ADVERB/PREPOSITION]
[date : 1500-1600; Origin : Perhaps copying the action]
to walk with slow heavy steps, especially because you are tired or it is difficult to walk:
　 ▪ We trudged home through the snow.

—trudge noun [SINGULAR]:
　 ▪ the long trudge back up the hill
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THESAURUS
to walk slowly
▪trudge /trʌdʒ/ to walk in a slow tired way because it is difficult to continue walking, or you do not want to go somewhere :
　 ▪ The men trudged along the road, heads bent against the wind.
　 ▪ I’ve spent hours trudging around the shops looking for a present.
▪plod to walk slowly in a tired way – often used about a horse, donkey etc :
　 ▪ The donkey was plodding slowly along under its heavy load.
　 ▪ I plodded on growing thirstier and hungrier.
▪shuffle to walk very slowly and noisily without lifting your feet off the ground :
　 ▪ The old man got up and shuffled to the door.

verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADVERB
along
▪ They trudged along the Overclyst road for perhaps half a mile, and then turned down a lane on the left.
▪ Windows repeat themselves in a monotonous rhythm that is continued by the people trudging along.
▪ He trudges along there on a Sunday, in hat, tie, dark suit.
▪ The other nomes trudged along in weary silence.
▪ His tailpiece, most aptly, is Eric Gill's woodcut of an infantryman trudging along his Via Dolorosa.
▪ He always looked tired and sad as he trudged along the streets.
▪ Others trudged along in wellingtons, a bulging canvas bag in each hand.
back
▪ Fighting the wind, she begins the trudge back to ex-banker's bungalow.
▪ She saw her father trudging back from the pigsty toward the house.
▪ He could only trudge back into the narrow dark.
▪ I trudged back upstairs and lay down in the dark.
▪ Drizzling rain soaked Hodgesaargh as he trudged back to the castle.
▪ When the sun got red we trudged back together.
▪ When we were convinced Robert had definitely gone the three of us trudged back up the field.
▪ I trudged back up to the cabin and reluctantly went to bed.
home
▪ Henry trudged home through a cold drizzle feeling lonely, let-down, and bitterly disappointed.
▪ Naked, dark with misery, the youth trudged home.
▪ Corbett relaxed, the thoroughfare was busy as carts, traders and farmers trudged home.
▪ We trudged home at dusk when the city glows in burnished tones of copper and terra cotta.
▪ I trudged home thinking about my day.
off
▪ The team were trudging off the pitch, the diamonds on their shirt-sleeves having long since lost their lustre.
▪ As Riker and I trudged off to find our tents, his voice faded to silence.
▪ He put down his glass of tea, lifted the rifle to his shoulder and trudged off into the debris.
▪ At about two o'clock, we picked up our packs and trudged off.
▪ I trudge off the platform on to the exit gantry and look below.
▪ He trudged off miserably down jubilee Road with the cold rain dripping from his ear lobes.
▪ Watching Ferdinand trudge off dejectedly at the end, it was hard not to feel sorry for him.
on
▪ They trudged on again, their feet following a vein of beaten earth under the thickness of the heather.
▪ Throughout all of this, Barrington has quietly trudged on because nobody else would.
▪ Presently he trudged on, alone and wretched.
▪ She wrenched off her coat while Tod trudged on up, and she came pounding after him.
▪ He thrust his gloved hands in his pockets and trudged on, his face closed and looking inward.
▪ He trudged on, stopped at a tavern, and ordered a drink; then another.
up
▪ He said it aloud to himself as he trudged up the stairs.
▪ Reva Bergen trudged up the steep walk, burdened with grocery sacks.
▪ With a little grin, she began trudging up the lane.
▪ He used the side entrance, on Lafayette, and trudged up the stairs to the second floor.
▪ I have to admit grudgingly that this is interesting, and I trudge up the path with Tony just behind.
▪ Then she patted her hair, as though that might make it behave itself and we all trudged up the beach.
▪ Billy Gorman trudged up the long path to the kitchen garden and the back of the house.
▪ I trudge up the High Street and pay no attention at first to the sirens.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As she trudged awkwardly up the valley road her feet began to sweat and the toes rubbed painfully against each other.
▪ Corbett trudged down the beaten, muddy track; the sky was overcast and a light rain began to fall.
▪ Father Gannon trudged upstairs and flopped down on his hard bed.
▪ He trudged forward doggedly, blinking the ice from his eyelashes.
▪ In many places the thaw was complete, and he trudged through mud.
▪ Reva Bergen trudged up the steep walk, burdened with grocery sacks.
▪ The fisherman trudged to the sea once more, spoke, and the flounder granted the wish.
▪ With a little grin, she began trudging up the lane.