"trudge" in the noun sense
1. trudge
a long difficult walk
"trudge" in the verb sense
1. slog, footslog, plod, trudge, pad, tramp
walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud
"Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone"
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