tread
/tɹɛd/ verb B2- To step or walk (on or across something); to trample. · He trod back and forth wearily.· Don't tread on the lawn.
- To step or walk upon. · Actors tread the boards.
- To proceed, to behave (in a certain manner). · to tread lightly, to tread gently· to tread carefully, to tread cautiously, to tread warily
- To beat or press with the feet. · to tread a path; to tread land when too light; a well-trodden path
- To work a lever, treadle, etc., with the foot or the feet.
- To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, etc.
- To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue; to repress.
- To copulate; said of (especially male) birds.
He/she/it treads · Past trod · Past participle trodden · -ing form treading
Verb forms
- Base form
- tread
- He/she/it
- treads
- Past
- trod
- Past participle
- trodden
- -ing form
- treading
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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At the same instant his ear caught a sort of indistinct sound on the stairs, followed by the measured tread of soldiery, with the clanking of swords and military accoutrements; then came a hum and buzz as of many voices, so as to deaden even the noisy mirth of the bridal party, among whom a vague feeling of curiosity and apprehension quelled every disposition to talk, and almost instantaneously the most deathlike stillness prevailed.
While thus looking upwards, he unknowingly trod upon a Viper asleep just before his feet.
If anyone treads on my toes or sticks a pin into me, it doesn’t matter, for I can’t feel it.
AN OX drinking at a pool trod on a brood of young frogs and crushed one of them to death.
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