plod

Speech parts

1. plod - Noun

2. plod - Verb

Meaning

To travel slowly but steadily; to trudge.

To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently.

To walk on slowly or heavily.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

tramp pad plodding trudge slog footslog march bobby swan wade bullock waddle trek drudge putter
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Antonyms

chill out bolt dart gallop play run
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Hypernyms

walk walking

Hyponyms

splash squelch slop squish slosh splosh

Phrases with the word

Mr Plod plod away plod on plod along

Derivatives

plodded plodding

Examples

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod. William Shakespeare

Dinosaurs have a bad public image as symbols of obsolescence and hulking in­ inefficiency; in political cartoons they are know-nothing conservatives that plod through miasmic swamps to inevitable extinction. Robert T. Bakker

We are no more content to plod along the beaten paths - and so marriage must go the way of God. Amy Levy

I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity. Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything. William Carey (missionary)

Often you shall think your road impassable, sombre and companionless. Have will and plod along; and round each curve you shall find a new companion. Mikha'il Na'ima

Close letter words and terms

Plockton plocoid plocoside plod away plod on Plodarisch