tread

Meaning

Verb

1. To step or walk (on or across something); to trample.
2. To step or walk upon.
3. 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. To copulate; said of (especially male) birds.
9. To copulate with.
10. 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

🚶

stamp

tread on

stride

tramp

footstep

gait

go

pedal

mate

🧉

stair

stomp

footfall

copulate

service

sole

go on

walk over

march

oppress

stamp down

stamp on

protector

trample upon

tread ply

foot

🦶

mount

walk on

walk upon

crush with the foot

take/make a step

footsteps

enter

footpace

footing

treadle

trample on

cover

squash

stamping

stepping

step up

strengthen

strut

surface

tense

thread

🧵

tone

tone up

step into

track

tramping

trampler

trampling

tread down

troop

underbelly

underfoot

violate

brattle

go on foot

mark time

stomp on

take a step

trample under foot

tread under foot

tread upon

tramp down

stair tread

shank base

amble

binding face

base

basis

bearing surface

beat

bed

🛏️

bedrock

board

bottom

brace

carriage

chase

clatter

come into

couple

👫

crush

dance

💃

face

floor

flounce

footboard

footprint

👣

foundation

fundus

goose step

gradation

ground

groundwork

infringe

kick

move

occupy

press

pull back

remold

remould

remove

ride

rock bottom

run

serve

set foot

Pronounced as (IPA)

/tɹɛd/

Etymology

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