-plod-

WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025

plod /plɑd/   v. [no object] , plod•ded, plod•ding. 

1. to walk heavily or with difficulty;
   trudge:
   The old horse plodded slowly down the road.
2. to work or proceed with steady but slow or difficult progress:
   He plodded along at his job.

plod•der, n. [countable]

-plod-, root. 

1. -plod- comes from Latin, where it has the meaning "noise.'' This meaning is found in such words as: explode, implode.
See -plaud-.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025

plod  (plod), v., plod•ded, plod•ding, n. 
v.i. 

1. to walk heavily or move laboriously;
   trudge:
   to plod under the weight of a burden.
2. to proceed in a tediously slow manner:
   The play just plodded along in the second act.
3. to work with constant and monotonous perseverance;
   drudge.

v.t. 

4. to walk heavily over or along.

n. 

5. the act or a course of plodding.
6. a sound of a heavy tread.

• perh. imitative 1555–65

plod′der, n. 
plod′ding•ly, adv. 
plod′ding•ness, n. 
Synonyms

• 1. See pace ¹.
• 3. toil, moil, labor.