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Definition of Wade
Wade
Woad.

To go; to move forward.

To walk in a substance that yields to the feet; to move, sinking at each step, as in water, mud, sand, etc.

Hence, to move with difficulty or labor; to proceed /lowly among objects or circumstances that constantly /inder or embarrass; as, to wade through a dull book.

To pass or cross by wading; as, he waded /he rivers and swamps.

The act of wading.


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Wade Quotations
Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
Friedrich Nietzsche

It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim.
John Owen

Prior to ROE V. WADE, abortions were common even though they were illegal. I don't think making them illegal again is going to solve the problem.
Tony Campolo

As a Senator I am opposed to duelling. As Ben. Wade, I recognize the code.
Benjamin F. Wade

Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.
Wallace Stevens

Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown.
Matthew Henry


It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there's the argument that people should be left alone on the other hand, there's the argument to wade in a stop slaughters in places like Bosnia and Kosovo and what we probably should have done in Rwanda.
Jello Biafra

They're all focusing on how John Roberts is going to decide Roe v. Wade. That isn't even the right question. I don't even know of a case in the (court) system that addresses it.
Jay Alan Sekulow

It means working harder to do the research but I don't really mind - I don't think I have what it takes to chase criminals through back alleys and wade through blood at crime scenes.
Jeffery Deaver

I was the Jane Roe of Roe vs. Wade, but Jane Roe has been laid to rest.
Norma McCorvey

For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the Left has been waging a systematic assault on the constitutional foundation of the nation.
David Horowitz

I think people really appreciate clever commercials, as do I. I think they're very entertaining. You just have to wade through all the garbage. That's one of the reasons people watch the Super Bowl. A lot of them watch it to see the commercials and not the actual game.
Kevin Nealon

By the time I was in high school, Roe v. Wade had passed, so that was also happening; girls were getting pregnant and getting abortions - and that happened in my school too.
Annette Bening

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.
Peter Straub

On the issues that I care deeply about - the environment, Roe vs. Wade, the war in Iraq, with no weapons of mass destruction, the tax cuts that are now leading to deficits, I've got some deep issues with the president.
Lincoln Chafee

A woman will be elected President before Wade Boggs is called out on strikes. I guarantee that.
George Brett

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Wade Translations
wade in Dutch is waden, flodderen, plassen
wade in German is sich durcharbeiten
wade in Italian is sguazzare
wade in Spanish is vadear
wade in Swedish is vada






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