Word Finder - trod

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To step or walk (on or over something); to trample.

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Don't tread on the lawn.

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To step or walk upon.

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Actors tread the boards.

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To beat or press with the feet.

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to tread a path; to tread land when too light; a well-trodden path

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To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, etc.

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To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue.

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To copulate; said of (especially male) birds.

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(of a male bird) To copulate with.

After a sleepless night, I trod with a lofty step the ruins of the forum; each memorable spot, where Romulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Caesar fell, was at once present to my eye; and several days of intoxication were lost or enjoyed before I could descend to a cool and minute investigation."

Moslem feet soon trod the courts of the great temple.

For a quarter of an hour, I trod this blazing sand, which was strewn with tiny crumbs of seashell.

The stage was now prepared, and all the actors who were destined to accomplish the ruin of Italy trod it with their armies.

Beneath I trod on that fresh, even, and soft verdure which is to be seen only in England.

The pure Culdees Were Albyn's earliest priests of God, Ere yet an island of her seas By foot of Saxon monk was trod."

Of this interior very little was known until the scientific expedition despatched by the Dutch Royal Geographical Society towards the end of the 'seventies, but in 1901 an armed Dutch expedition, necessitated by frequent disturbances, penetrated right into the Jambi hinterland, the Gajo districts, where until then no European had ever trod.

And the grounds of the commune, the soil and the lawns, had they not repulsed me each time I trod them?

He had chosen the candidate, trod the turf, pressed the flesh and personalized events wherever possible.

He went back to America some years later, this time to Mississippi where he trod in the footsteps of his Delta blues heroes.

Who for our salvation descended from heaven, was conceived of the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered by suffering under Pontius Pilate, under Herod the King, crucified, buried, descended into hell, trod down the sting of death, rose again the third day, appeared to the apostles.

The frail wooden ploughs with a lance-headed share that only scratched the surface soil, were then superseded by iron ploughs; steam threshers replaced the oxen which trod out the corn, and modern implements were widely adopted.

As an educational reformer, as a man of letters and learning, who trod "the large and impartial ways of knowledge," and who swayed others to the same paths, as a thinker influential alike in the action and the reaction to which he led, Cousin stands out conspicuously among the memorable Frenchmen of the 29th century.

I had not lived there a week before my feet wore a path from my door to the pond-side; and though it is five or six years since I trod it, it is still quite distinct.

One large bundle held their all--bed, coffee-mill, looking-glass, hens--all but the cat; she took to the woods and became a wild cat, and, as I learned afterward, trod in a trap set for woodchucks, and so became a dead cat at last.

The road the French would take was unknown, and so the closer our troops trod on their heels the greater distance they had to cover.

It was the only battle which I have ever witnessed, the only battle-field I ever trod while the battle was raging; internecine war; the red republicans on the one hand, and the black imperialists on the other.

Then Joseph Halevy made his remarkable journey through the Jauf, visiting districts and ruins which no European foot had trod since the expedition of Gallus, and returned with almost Boo inscriptions.