"wades" in the noun sense
1. Wade, Virginia Wade
English tennis player who won many women's singles titles (born in 1945)
"wades" in the verb sense
1. wade
walk (through relatively shallow water
"Can we wade across the river to the other side?"
"Wade the pond"
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