Definition of "trudge" []

• To walk in a laborious, heavy-footed way; plod. (verb-intransitive)
• A long, tedious walk. (noun)

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• "I am here, I have trudged — do you like the word trudge?"
• "I kind of trudge through the evil stuff that I don't like doing, like the sanding and the this, that, and the other thing out of habit."
• "It also captured that late night urgency, buzzing from pub to club to cafe, those Important Conversations like a campfire on an empty beach, weaving dreams of the future until the streetlights gave way to the dawn, and then the final trudge home (or sprint home fueled on booze and kebab)."