Trudge

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–verb (used without object) 

1. to walk, esp. laboriously 

or

wearily: to trudge up a [long] flight of steps.  



–verb (used with object) 

2. to walk laboriously or wearily along or over: He trudged the deserted road for [hours].  



–noun 

3. a laborious or tiring walk; tramp. 



Origin:

1540–50; perh. b. tread and drudge 



—Synonyms 

1. tramp. See pace1.



Pace, plod, trudge refer to a steady and monotonous kind of walking. 



Pace suggests steady, measured steps as of one completely lost in thought or impelled by some distraction: to pace up and down. 



Plod implies a slow, heavy, laborious, weary walk: The mailman plods his [weary] way. 



Trudge implies a spiritless but usually steady and doggedly persistent walk: The [farmer] trudged to his village to buy his supplies.





　

Endlessly imitated and parodied, Ingmar Bergman's landmark art movie The Seventh Seal (Det Sjunde Inseglet) [retains] its ability to hold an audience spellbound. 



Bergman regular Max von Sydow stars as a 14th century knight named Antonius Block, wearily heading home after ten years' [worth] of combat. Disillusioned by unending war, plague, and misery Block has concluded that God does not exist. 



As he trudges [across] the wilderness, Block is visited by Death (Bengt Ekerot), garbed in the traditional black robe. Unwilling to give up the ghost, Block challenges Death to a game of chess. If he wins, he lives — if not, he'll allow Death to [claim] him. 



As they play, the knight and the Grim Reaper get into a spirited discussion over whether or not God exists. To recount all that happens next would [diminish] the impact of the film itself; we can observe that The Seventh Seal ends with one of the most indelible of all of Bergman's cinematic images: the near-silhouette "Dance of Death." 



Considered by some as the apotheosis of all Ingmar Bergman films (other likely candidates for that honor include Wild Strawberries and Persona), and certainly one of the most influential European art movies, The Seventh Seal won a [multitude] of awards, including the Special Jury Prize at the 1957 Cannes Film Festival.



apotheosis

[uh-poth-ee-oh-sis, ap-uh-thee-uh-sis]

–noun

1. the elevation 

or 

exaltation of a person to the rank of a god. 



2. the ideal example; epitome; quintessence: This poem is the apotheosis of lyric expression.  





harness

trot

horse, go at a gait between walk and run

wobble

The [table] wobbled on its uneven legs.

His [voice] wobbled.

lurch

Dressed in tinfoil and [lurching] like Frankenstein's monster

shamble

It stars Jack Black as Jerry, a [shambling], logorrheic loser who lives in a trailer 

Brendan Gleeson, with that noble shamble[s] of a face and the [heft] of a boxer gone to seed

amble

Day-Lewis—an [ambling] scarecrow under [boater] and [musty] cloth coat

—is as rooted as an [oak] in his character and milieu



thresh

thrash 

He got his comeuppance when the bully [thrashed] him.

drub

Valkyrie has taken a [drubbing] on the PR front, mostly because of people's [poisonous] initial reactions to Tom Cruise as Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg.

Latin grammar was drubbed into their [heads].

flail

The film finishes by exploring hetero motifs: Encolpio discovers that he is impotent while [flailing] around on the alter of the whore-priestess, 

and then recovers his [virility] while pleasuring Oneothea, a corpulent [sorceress] sex therapist.

Convulsion