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Trodden

Tread \Tread\, v. i. [imp. Trod; p. p. Trodden, Trod; p. pr. & vb. n. Treading.] [OE. treden, AS. tredan; akin to OFries. treda, OS. tredan, D. & LG. treden, G. treten, OHG. tretan, Icel. tro?a, Sw. tr[*a]da, tr["a]da, Dan. tr[ae]de, Goth. trudan, and perhaps ultimately to F. tramp; cf. Gr. ? a running, Skr. dram to run. Cf. Trade, Tramp, Trot.]

  1. To set the foot; to step.

    Where'er you tread, the blushing flowers shall rise.
    --Pope.

    Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
    --Pope.

    The hard stone Under our feet, on which we tread and go.
    --Chaucer.

  2. To walk or go; especially, to walk with a stately or a cautious step.

    Ye that . . . stately tread, or lowly creep.
    --Milton.

  3. To copulate; said of birds, esp. the males. --Shak. To tread on or To tread upon.

    1. To trample; to set the foot on in contempt. ``Thou shalt tread upon their high places.''
      --Deut. xxxiii. 29.

    2. to follow closely. ``Year treads on year.''
      --Wordsworth.

      To tread upon the heels of, to follow close upon. ``Dreadful consequences that tread upon the heels of those allowances to sin.''
      --Milton.

      One woe doth tread upon another's heel.
      --Shak.

Trodden

Trodden \Trod"den\, p. p. of Tread.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
trodden

"that has been stepped on," 1540s, past participle adjective from tread (v.). The past participle was altered from Middle English treden under influence of Middle English past participles such as stolen from steal.

Wiktionary
trodden

  1. crushed by being walked on. v

  2. (past participle of tread English)

WordNet
tread

  1. n. a step in walking or running [syn: pace, stride]

  2. the grooved surface of a pneumatic tire

  3. the part (as of a wheel or shoe) that makes contact with the ground

  4. structural member consisting of the horizontal part of a stair or step

  5. [also: trodden, trod]

tread

  1. v. put down or press the foot, place the foot; "For fools rush in where angels fear to tread"; "step on the brake" [syn: step]

  2. tread or stomp heavily or roughly; "The soldiers trampled across the fields" [syn: trample]

  3. crush as if by treading on; "tread grapes to make wine"

  4. brace (an archer's bow) by pressing the foot against the center

  5. apply (the tread) to a tire

  6. mate with; "male birds tread the females"

  7. [also: trodden, trod]

trodden

adj. crushed or broken by being stepped upon heavily; "her trampled flowers lay crushed and broken"; "the grass was trodden and muddy" [syn: trampled]

trodden

See tread

Usage examples of "trodden".

Then they rode downhill and uphill, across a ryefield trodden and beaten down as if by hail, following a track freshly made by the artillery over the furrows of the plowed land, and reached some fleches* which were still being dug.

He did not now run with the feeling of doubt and conflict with which he had trodden the Enns bridge, but with the feeling of a hare fleeing from the hounds.

The verdure had thickened and its bright green stood out sharply against the brownish strips of winter rye trodden down by the cattle, and against the pale-yellow stubble of the spring buckwheat.

They were driving downhill and coming out upon a broad trodden track across a meadow, near a river.

She might have turned turtle to float keel uppermost, or she might even have been trodden right under there was no way for him to know.

Not even the heaviest trodden spoor could have survived the inundation.

The cattle had trodden the tracks and confused the sign, so it was difficult even for him to read as much from them as he wanted.

Bakkat pointed wordlessly at the damp earth and the tracks deeply trodden into it.

The insects laid their eggs in the fresh cattle dung where they were trodden under the hoofs of the milling herd and could not hatch.

The unevenness of the terrain we crossed favored us, for as soon as they began their descent of the ridge, we could venture closer, Several times we had to leave the trodden path to keep hidden below the ridgeline, but those we followed seemed confident that they were now in safer territory.

The trodden snow underfoot seemed heavier and denser and the blue of the sky overhead deeper.

The damp snow clung heavily to our leggings and boots, and before long the main party outdistanced us, until we followed in their trodden path.

Then higher we flew, until my heart pounded and I was giddy, over the snowy peaks and trodden passes of the Mountains, and then back into summer.

I swung wide of my trodden trail and tried again to force my way up through the snow.

I diverted from the main road down to Buckkeep Town onto the trodden trail that went first through the woods and then across the gentle roll of a hill.