wading

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
wade/weɪd/

▶verb

• 1 walk through a liquid or viscous substance.

• 2 (wade through) read laboriously through (a long piece of writing).

• 3 (wade in/into) informal attack, intervene, or become involved in a vigorous or forceful way.

▶noun an act of wading.

– derivatives
wadable (also wadeable) adjective.

– origin OE wadan ‘move onward’, also ‘penetrate’, from a Gmc word meaning ‘go (through)’.