Meaning

simple past of tread.

Definitions by Sense

1. simple past of tread
2. To walk heavily or laboriously; plod; tread
3. A track or pathway.

Example Sentences

Sir ; to me the noble lord seems to trod close in the foot-steps of his fellow-labourers in the ministerial vineyard, and u crow over us with the same reason

It renders the paths, and the banks of the bayous in that region almost impassable in autumn, until the cattle have trodded it down.

They bore him to his chamber, where he lay all pale and tearless, like some broken reed, Some helpless shrub, all crushed and trodded down

Yet alas! I see around me the trodding of the same old paths, each trying to excel the other how to ape the good old ministers who were "very much liked by their parishioners."

Land of mystery and enchantment, continent of contrast and extremes, where adventure awaits those who dare to defy convention and choose to trod the unfamiliar path.

Happily, he writes the way he walks: at a vigorous lope, both attentive to the varied soils of the ground he trods and curious about the dust and dandelions over the next hill.

And avoid trodding on the inevitably wet soil around the base of the shrubs as you work.

In many ways this process replicates the stone trods or pannierways which date from the mediaeval period and are a feature of many parts of the North York Moors.

Word Forms

• trods
• trodding
• trodded

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Use trod when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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