PLOD (plodded, plodding)

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Irregular inflected forms: plodded    , plodding   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does plod mean? 

• PLOD (noun)
  The noun PLOD has 1 sense:

1. the act of walking with a slow heavy gait

  Familiarity information: PLOD used as a noun is very rare.

• PLOD (verb)
  The verb PLOD has 1 sense:

1. walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud

  Familiarity information: PLOD used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLOD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of walking with a slow heavy gait

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

plod; plodding

Context example:

I could recognize his plod anywhere

Hypernyms ("plod" is a kind of...):

walk; walking (the act of traveling by foot)

• PLOD (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they plod    ... he / she / it plods   
Past simple: plodded   
Past participle: plodded   
-ing form: plodding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

footslog; pad; plod; slog; tramp; trudge

Context example:

Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone

Hypernyms (to "plod" is one way to...):

walk (use one's feet to advance; advance by steps)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "plod"):

slop; slosh; splash; splosh; squelch; squish (walk through mud or mire)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

plodder (someone who moves slowly)

plodder (someone who works slowly and monotonously for long hours)

plodder (someone who walks in a laborious heavy-footed manner)

plodding (the act of walking with a slow heavy gait)

 Context examples 

He plodded on for half an hour, when the hallucination arose again.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Even as Alleyne watched them they turned upon their heels and plodded off together upon their way.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For I am a plodding kind of fellow, Copperfield, and had learnt the way of doing such things pithily.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Henry made no reply, and plodded on alone, though often he cast anxious glances back into the grey solitude where his partner had disappeared.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Then he plodded down the road himself, to the water tank, where half a dozen empties lay on a side-track waiting for the up freight.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I was plodding up the slope, turning these thoughts over in my mind, and had reached a point which may have been half-way to home, when my mind was brought back to my own position by a strange noise behind me.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The lawyer plods, quite care-worn; the physician is up at all hours, and travelling in all weather; and even the clergyman— she stopt a moment to consider what might do for the clergyman;—and even the clergyman, you know is obliged to go into infected rooms, and expose his health and looks to all the injury of a poisonous atmosphere.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

"I beg your pardon. I didn't see the name distinctly. Never mind, I can walk. I'm used to plodding in the mud," returned Jo, winking hard, because she would have died rather than openly wipe her eyes.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

In truth it was humble—but then it was sheltered, and I wanted a safe asylum: it was plodding—but then, compared with that of a governess in a rich house, it was independent; and the fear of servitude with strangers entered my soul like iron: it was not ignoble—not unworthy—not mentally degrading, I made my decision.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Strings of pedestrians, most of them so weary and dust-covered that it was evident that they had walked the thirty miles from London during the night, were plodding along by the sides of the road or trailing over the long mottled slopes of the moorland.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)