PLOD, verb intransitive To travel or work slowly or with steady laborious diligence. A plodding diligence brings us sooner to our journey's end, than a fluttering way of advancing by starts. Some stupid, plodding, money-loving wight. 1. To study heavily with steady diligence. 2. To toil; to drudge.
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