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Overtread

Overtread \O`ver*tread"\, v. t. [AS. oferiredan.] To tread over or upon.

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overtread

vb. (context transitive English) To tread over or upon.

Usage examples of "overtread".

Not for a long time has anybody been rash enough to break the pact and overtread the bounds.

Lawman and he will send swift gild for the overtreading of your rights.

There were also a great many hoofprints, some looking new, some overtrodden and old.

They circled up behind her to avoid overtreading the trail and knelt, reaching out with their riflebarrels to part more of the grass.