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n. - The act of walking with a slow heavy gait; Hard monotonous routine work adj. - (of movement) slow and laborious.

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  • Verb (used without object) : to plod under the weight of a burden. ,The play just plodded along in the second act
  • If you could get to the top through time alone, with no skill, we called it "plodding", and it was regarded as A Bad Thing.
  • For a book that intends to be unbeautiful, "plodding", sometimes it makes all the difference to expect that as you enter the narrative.
  • I've been kind of plodding along, been down the last couple of years.
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