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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Trudge \Trudge\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Trudged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Trudging}.] [Perhaps of Scand. origin, and originally meaning, to walk on snowshoes; cf. dial. Sw. truga, trudja, a snowshoe, Norw. truga, Icel. [thorn]r[=u]ga.] To walk or march with labor; to jog along; to move wearily.
And trudged to Rome upon my naked feet. --Dryden.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
79 Moby Thesaurus words for "trudging": ambling, ambulation, backpacking, cautious, circumspect, claudicant, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, deliberate, easy, faltering, flagging, foot-dragging, footing, footing it, footwork, gentle, going on foot, gradual, halting, hiking, hitchhiking, hitching, hobbled, hobbling, hoofing, idle, indolent, languid, languorous, lazy, legwork, leisurely, limping, lumbering, marching, moderate, pedestrianism, perambulation, poking, poky, relaxed, reluctant, sauntering, shuffling, slack, slothful, slow, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow, slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving, slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped, sluggish, snail-paced, snaillike, staggering, strolling, tentative, thumbing, thumbing a ride, toddling, tortoiselike, tottering, tramping, treading, turtlelike, unhurried, waddling, walking
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