plod

(plŏd)

v. plod·ded, plod·ding, plods

v.intr.

1. To move or walk heavily or laboriously; trudge: "donkeys that plodded wearily in a circle round a gin" (D.H. Lawrence).

2. To work or act perseveringly or monotonously; drudge: plodding through a mountain of paperwork.

v.tr.

To trudge along or over.

1. The act of moving or walking heavily and slowly.

2. The sound made by a heavy step.

[Perhaps imitative.]

plod′der n.

plod′ding·ly adv.

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Adv.

ploddingly - in a plodding manner; "this writer ploddingly accumulates detail after detail"

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Daniel Doyce, still wiping his forehead, ploddingly repeated.

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The musicians had spent all their fine frenzy by now, and played only one tune, wearily, ploddingly. There were twenty bars or so of it, and when they came to the end they began again.

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