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Definition: To tread upon
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.
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Where'er you tread, the blushing flowers shall rise.
--Pope.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. --Pope.
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The hard stone
Under our feet, on which we tread and go. --Chaucer.
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2. To walk or go; especially, to walk with a stately or a
cautious step.
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Ye that . . . stately tread, or lowly creep.
--Milton.
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3. To copulate; said of birds, esp. the males. --Shak.
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To tread on or
To tread upon.
(a) To trample; to set the foot on in contempt.
“Thou
shalt tread upon their high places.” --Deut. xxxiii.
29.
(b) 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.
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One woe doth tread upon another's heel. --Shak.
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