tread

Meaning

Verb

1. (intransitive) To step or walk (on or across something); to trample.
2. (transitive) To step or walk upon.
3. (figuratively) To proceed, to behave (in a certain manner).
4. To beat or press with the feet.
5. To work a lever, treadle, etc., with the foot or the feet.
6. To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, etc.
7. To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue; to repress.
8. (intransitive) To copulate; said of (especially male) birds.
9. (transitive) To copulate with.
10. (transitive) To crush grapes with one's feet to make wine

Noun

1. A step taken with the foot.
2. A manner of stepping.
3. The sound made when someone or something is walking.
4. (obsolete) A way; a track or path.
5. A walking surface in a stairway on which the foot is placed.
6. The grooves carved into the face of a tire, used to give the tire traction.
7. The grooves on the bottom of a shoe or other footwear, used to give grip or traction.
8. The chalaza of a bird's egg; the treadle.
9. The act of avian copulation in which the male bird mounts the female by standing on her back.
10. The top of the banquette, on which soldiers stand to fire over the parapet.
11. A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes, or strikes its feet together.

Synonyms

step

trample

step on

pace

walk

🚶

tread on

stamp

stride

footstep

tramp

go

gait

mate

🧉

pedal

footfall

copulate

stomp

stair

footsteps

stamp down

mount

footing

take/make a step

oppress

foot

🦶

tread ply

footpace

trample upon

walk over

walk on

treadle

enter

trample on

walk upon

go on

stamp on

cover

service

protector

sole

crush with the foot

march

footprint

👣

come into

bedrock

clatter

footboard

chase

bed

🛏️

basis

Translations

marcher sur

pisar

piétiner

treten

Profil

pisada

lopen

pedata

marcher

🚶

pisar

treden

hollar

stappen

Schritt

schrijden

Pronounced as (IPA)

/tɹɛd/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: treden

Inherited from Old English: tredan

Inherited from Middle English: tred

In summary

From Middle English treden, from Old English tredan, from Proto-West Germanic *tredan, from Proto-Germanic *trudaną.