TRUDGE Synonyms: 63 Similar and Opposite Words

trudge

verb

ˈtrəj

Definition of trudge

as in to shuffle

to move heavily or clumsily flooded residents who were forced to trudge through waist-deep water

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as in to stumble

to proceed or act clumsily or ineffectually no expert on taxes, I spent the whole weekend trudging through government forms

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Recent Examples of trudge At the end of the third quarter of this past Sunday’s 20-13 comeback win over Jacksonville, Dobbins trudged to the locker room with a hamstring injury. — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2026 Millions of years after a massive Tyrannosaurus rex trudged through a prehistoric mudflat, paleontologists can finally follow in its footsteps. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 21 Sep. 2026 The Falcons trudged through another difficult afternoon offensively, but unlike Week 1, their defense fell short, too. — Daniel Flick, AJC.com, 20 Sep. 2026 Hawke remembers his 19-year-old self trudging through snowy Alaska for White Fang. — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for trudge

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Findings of no effect tend to either be shuffled off to low-profile journals or left behind as unpublished lab lore.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 2 Nov. 2026
For the most part, this was a second consecutive solid performance by a group that will likely undergo major personnel shuffling all season.

— Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of shuffle

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Johnson had nothing but space, and stumbled to make one move before reaching the end zone for his first career touchdown.

— Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 2 Nov. 2026
After stumbling into an intro to acting class, the 28-year-old quickly caught the professor’s attention.

— Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of stumble

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His creator, an unnamed basket-weaver (Peter Dinklage), braided him as a mate for a lonely virgin, a fisherwoman (Olivia Colman) who stomps around her rustic village smelling like sushi and tossing her head back in an Eliza Doolittle guffaw.

— Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
But wrap a play in too much homespun folksiness and the thing starts to feel both suffocating and, despite all the driving tunes and stomping choreography in the world, suffocated.

— Sara Holdren, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2026

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