[{"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to walk in water, when partially immersed:He wasn't swimming, he was wading.", "to play in water:The children were wading in the pool most of the afternoon.", "to walk through water, snow, sand, or any other substance that impedes free motion or offers resistance to movement:to wade through the mud.", "to make one's way slowly or laboriously (often followed bythrough):to wade through a dull book.Synonyms: work , plow , plod , toil , labor", "Obsolete.to go or proceed."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to pass through or cross by wading; ford:to wade a stream."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["an act or instance of wading:We went for a wade in the shallows."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb phrase", "List Items": ["to begin energetically.to attack strongly:to wade into a thoughtless child; to wade into a mob of rioters.", "to begin energetically.", "to attack strongly:to wade into a thoughtless child; to wade into a mob of rioters."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["Benjamin Franklin,1800–78,U.S. lawyer and antislavery politician.", "a male given name."]}]