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as in shuffled
to move heavily or clumsily
flooded residents who were forced to trudge through waist-deep water
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as in stumbled
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 trudged
This was the type of performance to test any dry January resolutions among supporters, who trudged away from Hill Dickinson Stadium in the sleet on Sunday having watched their team dominated and picked apart.
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Greg O'Keeffe, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
That means that the bank can finally sell the land, which has been in limbo while the court case trudged on, to be redeveloped.
—Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 10 Dec. 2025
The trade rumors surrounding Milwaukee Bucks superstar forward Giannis Antetokounmpo have only intensified as the club's unhappy season has trudged on.
—Ricardo Sandoval, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2025
From 2011 to 2013, Pro Idioms campaigners trudged from hamlet to hamlet, insisting that the canton didn’t have the authority to dictate.
—Simon Akam, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
Just trudged over to talk to Darren Rizzi on the sideline.
—Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 6 Nov. 2025
Just before noon on July 20, 2025, an Italian mountaineer named Marco Confortola trudged to the summit of 26,509-foot Gasherbrum I in Pakistan.
—Owen Clarke, Outside, 30 Oct. 2025
Tour rookie Soren Kjeldsen of Denmark trudged through the past three weeks but said Sunday the conditions were a part of golf.
—Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2025
The pair had been seen speaking together as the relief pitcher trudged off the field.
—Ben Church, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2025
Greg O'Keeffe, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
That means that the bank can finally sell the land, which has been in limbo while the court case trudged on, to be redeveloped.
—Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 10 Dec. 2025
The trade rumors surrounding Milwaukee Bucks superstar forward Giannis Antetokounmpo have only intensified as the club's unhappy season has trudged on.
—Ricardo Sandoval, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2025
From 2011 to 2013, Pro Idioms campaigners trudged from hamlet to hamlet, insisting that the canton didn’t have the authority to dictate.
—Simon Akam, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
Just trudged over to talk to Darren Rizzi on the sideline.
—Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 6 Nov. 2025
Just before noon on July 20, 2025, an Italian mountaineer named Marco Confortola trudged to the summit of 26,509-foot Gasherbrum I in Pakistan.
—Owen Clarke, Outside, 30 Oct. 2025
Tour rookie Soren Kjeldsen of Denmark trudged through the past three weeks but said Sunday the conditions were a part of golf.
—Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2025
The pair had been seen speaking together as the relief pitcher trudged off the field.
—Ben Church, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for trudged
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Empty boxes were stacked along a side wall in the locker room as players shuffled in and out to pack up a season’s worth of shirts and jerseys and cleats and memorabilia.—
Nicki Jhabvala,
New York Times,
6 Jan. 2026
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First, the sophomore shuffled back into coverage after showing A-gap pressure to intercept a Bryce Underwood pass over the middle of the field, ending a key fourth-quarter drive.—
David Eckert,
Austin American Statesman,
1 Jan. 2026
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The Avs stumbled out of the starting blocks the past two seasons.—
Corey Masisak,
Denver Post,
8 Nov. 2025
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Three years ago, two Sudanese men stumbled into a police station in the desert town of Tazirbu.—
Mick Krever,
CNN Money,
6 Nov. 2025
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Jenkins brutally stomped and punched Coto, who was severely injured and put on life support.—
Tony Aiello,
CBS News,
8 Jan. 2026
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The disarmingly handsome comic adopted the delivery of a smarmy newsman and deadpanned a joke about the hatching of a baby sandpiper, a triumph for the zoo where it was born, until the bird was stomped to death by a baby hippo born a day earlier.—
Scottie Andrew,
CNN Money,
1 Jan. 2026
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Footage of the crash showed a towering wave of smoke and flames billowing skyward near the airport after the low-flying plane struggled to climb and then erupted into an enormous fireball on impact.—
Ray Sanchez,
CNN Money,
8 Nov. 2025
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Memphis struggled out of the gate on Friday night against a motivated Tulane Green Wave team that suffered an upset loss to UTSA in Week 10.—
Jordan Sigler,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Nov. 2025
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“Trudged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trudged. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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