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slogged

Verb
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A past-tense verb meaning to have moved heavily, laboriously, or with effort; used in poetry to convey weariness, adversity, or perseverance.

Detailed Definition
To slog is to trudge or plod laboriously, often with a sense of exhaustion. In war poetry, the word often suggests the soldiers’ weary, burdensome movement rather than simple walking.
Example
Example in poetry:
“As they slogged up to Arras with rifle and pack” — a First World War image of troops trudging under weight; slogged suggests slow, exhausting progress through mud or resistance; Arras evokes the Western Front and its heavy casualties; the blunt past-tense verb matches the physical burden of war poetry; compare Wilfred Owen’s marching soldiers in “Dulce et Decorum Est”
Additional Notes
“slogged” is less common in everyday reading here and may need lookup because it means moving with heavy effort.; Found in the poem, The General by Siegfried Sassoon
Also Known As
traipsed trudged plodded
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