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present participle and gerund of plod examples
comparative more plodding, superlative most plodding
Progressing slowly and laboriously. examples
countable and uncountable, plural ploddings
Slow, laborious progress. quotations examples
I'd count not wearisome / Long toil, nor enterprise, / But strain to reach it; aye, with wrestlings stout / And hopes that even in the dark will grow / (Like plants in dungeons, reaching feelers out), / And ploddings wary and slow.
1863, Jean Ingelow, “Honors”, in Poems