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1. Hard monotonous routine work
   - drudgery, grind, donkeywork
    
2. The act of walking with a slow heavy gait
   "I could recognize his plodding anywhere"
   - plod

1. (of movement) slow and laborious
   "plodding steps"
   - leaden

1. Walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud
   "Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone"
   - slog, footslog, trudge, pad, tramp

Derived forms: ploddings

See also: effortful, plodder, ploddingly

Type of: labor [US], labour [Brit, Cdn], toil, walk, walking

Encyclopedia: Plod