wade through

verb

Roget 539: learn; acquire knowledge, gain knowledge, receive knowledge, take in knowledge, drink in knowledge, imbibe knowledge, pick up knowledge, gather knowledge, get knowledge, obtain knowledge, collect knowledge, glean knowledge, glean information, glean learning.    acquaint oneself with, master; make oneself master of, make oneself acquainted with; grind, cram; get up, coach up; learn by heart, learn by rote.    read, spell, peruse; con over, pore over, thumb over; wade through; dip into; run the eye over, run the eye through; turn over the leaves.    study; be studious etc. adj.. [study intensely] burn the midnight oil, consume the midnight oil, mind one's book; cram.    go to school, go to college, go to the university; matriculate; serve an apprenticeship, serve one's apprenticeship, serve one's time; learn one's trade; be informed etc. 527; be taught etc. 537.    [stop going to school voluntarily (intransitive)] drop out, leave school, quit school; graduate; transfer; take a leave.    [cause to stop going to school (transitive)] dismiss, expel, kick out of school.    [stop going to school involuntarily] flunk out; be dismissed etc. ... show more

Roget 686: exert oneself; exert one's energies, tax one's energies; use exertion.    labor, work, toil, moil, sweat, fag, drudge, slave, drag a lengthened chain, wade through, strive, stretch a long arm; pull, tug, ply; ply the oar, tug at the oar; do the work; take the laboring oar bestir oneself (be active) 682; take trouble, trouble oneself.    work hard; rough it; put forth one's strength, put forth a strong arm; fall to work, bend the bow; buckle to, set one's shoulder to the wheel etc. (resolution) 604; work like a horse, work like a cart horse, work like a galley slave, work like a coal heaver; labor day and night, work day and night; redouble one's efforts; do double duty; work double hours, work double tides; sit up, burn the candle at both ends; stick to etc. (persevere) 604.1; work one's way, fight one's way, lay about one, hammer at.    take pains; do one's best, do one's level best, do one's utmost; give one hundred percent, do the best one can, do all one can, do all in one's power, do as much as in one lies, do what lies in one's power; use one's best endeavor, use one's utmost endeavor; try one's best, try one's utmost; play one's best card; put one's best leg foremost, put one's right leg foremost; have one's whole soul in his work, put all one's strength into, strain every nerve; spare no efforts, spare no pains; go all lengths; go through fire and water etc. (resolution) 604; move heaven and earth, leave no stone unturned.    ... show more

Moby thesaurus: bone, con, contemplate, dig, drill, drudge, elucubrate, examine, fag, go over, grind, grub, hammer, hammer away, lucubrate, moil, peg, peg away, peruse, plod, plug, plug along, plug away, plunge into, pore over, pound away, practice, read, regard studiously, restudy, review, slog, study, swot, toil, travail, vet, work away ... show more.

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