trod

Formstrods, trodding, trodded

Pluraltrods

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past of tread. Use it for steps someone took before now.

   She trod carefully across the icy yard.

   Someone trod on my foot on the crowded bus.

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2. 2
   verb

   To walk with heavy, tired steps, or to step on something.

   And avoid trodding on the inevitably wet soil around the base of the shrubs as you work.

   2009, Sonia Day, “Nip that gardening zeal in the bud”Here, trodding means walking heavily on the soil.

   It renders the paths, and the banks of the bayous in that region almost impassable in autumn, until the cattle have trodded it down.

   1833, Timothy Flint, The history and geography of the Mississippi ValleyHere, trodded means walked over heavily, so the cattle pressed it down.

   Similartrudge, plod, tramp

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3. 3
   nouncountable

   A path or track that people or animals walk along.

   We followed an old stone trod across the moor.

   Sheep had worn a narrow trod along the side of the hill.

   Similartrack, path, trail, footpath

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