0 present participle of wade
1 to walk through water or other liquid with some effort, because it is deep enough to come quite high up your legs, or thick :
Wading through a swamp of complete confusion : how to choose a method for estimating soil water retention parameters for crop models.
Wading pools are usually equipped with chlorination and filtration.
The pond also included a wading area for small children, including toddlers.
The likely consequences for migratory wildfowl and wading birds have been carefully assessed by experts, as have the possibility of providing some alternative feeding grounds.
It makes wading through documents of that kind rather more interesting.
Why does he talk of wading through their blood?
The heavy document through which some of us remember wading many years ago is disappearing.
In fact, the number of wading birds exceeds 10,000 in mid winter.