WordNet
tread on
v. place or press the foot on; "He stepped on the hem of her long gown" [syn: step on]
Usage examples of "tread on".
The one who'd been about to grab for her arm some more crawfished back as if he'd just noticed a diamondback he'd been fixing to tread on barefoot.
He was biding his time, building his market and strength, taking care not to tread on any giant toes.
Now was no time to pitch into one of the little craters or smash a tread on a rock.
And when I say that I will he your lord, I mean not thereby that I will not lie forever at your feet and bow my head in the dust, and say to you: Tread on it, if it seem good to you, for I am your slave!
I do not know which wakened her at last, the light or the draft, but I finally heard her hesitant tread on the stair.