Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to tread
Participle: trodden; trod
Gerund: treading
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | tread |
| you | tread |
| he;she;it | treads |
| we | tread |
| you | tread |
| they | tread |
Perfect
| I | have trodden; trod |
| you | have trodden; trod |
| he;she;it | has trodden; trod |
| we | have trodden; trod |
| you | have trodden; trod |
| they | have trodden; trod |
Past
| I | trod |
| you | trod |
| he;she;it | trod |
| we | trod |
| you | trod |
| they | trod |
Pluperfect
| I | had trodden; trod |
| you | had trodden; trod |
| he;she;it | had trodden; trod |
| we | had trodden; trod |
| you | had trodden; trod |
| they | had trodden; trod |
Future
| I | will tread |
| you | will tread |
| he;she;it | will tread |
| we | will tread |
| you | will tread |
| they | will tread |
Future Perfect
| I | will have trodden; trod |
| you | will have trodden; trod |
| he;she;it | will have trodden; trod |
| we | will have trodden; trod |
| you | will have trodden; trod |
| they | will have trodden; trod |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | tread |
| you | tread |
| he;she;it | tread |
| we | tread |
| you | tread |
| they | tread |
Perfect
| I | have trodden; trod |
| you | have trodden; trod |
| he;she;it | have trodden; trod |
| we | have trodden; trod |
| you | have trodden; trod |
| they | have trodden; trod |
Imperfect
| I | trod |
| you | trod |
| he;she;it | trod |
| we | trod |
| you | trod |
| they | trod |
Pluperfect
| I | had trodden; trod |
| you | had trodden; trod |
| he;she;it | had trodden; trod |
| we | had trodden; trod |
| you | had trodden; trod |
| they | had trodden; trod |
Conditional
Present
| I | would tread |
| you | would tread |
| he;she;it | would tread |
| we | would tread |
| you | would tread |
| they | would tread |
Perfect
| I | would have trodden; trod |
| you | would have trodden; trod |
| he;she;it | would have trodden; trod |
| we | would have trodden; trod |
| you | would have trodden; trod |
| they | would have trodden; trod |
Imperative
| you | tread |
| we | Let's tread |
| you | tread |
Verbs similar to 'tread'
aread,
bread,
dread,
read,
thread,
treat,
trend,
adread,
arear,
arread,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English treden, from Old English tredan, from Proto-West Germanic *tredan, from Proto-Germanic *trudaną. See: Middle English '
treden', Old English '
tredan', Proto-Germanic '
*trudaną'.
Verbs referencing "tread"
Norwegian, nynorsk
tre, German, old spelling
treten, Dutch
treden, Norwegian, nynorsk
trø, Danish
træde, German, Pennsylvania
drede.
Sample Sentences
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‘His thirst for knowledge, ’ says Dr. Howe, ‘proclaimed itself as soon as he entered the house, by his eager examination of everything he could feel or smell in his new location. For instance, treading upon the register of a furnace, he instantly stooped down, and began to feel it, and soon discovered the way in which the upper plate moved upon the lower one; but this was not enough for him, so [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] and improvement, not of demoralisation and corruption; to impress upon him that there is but one path, and that one sober industry, which can ever lead him to happiness; to teach him how it may be trodden, if his footsteps have never yet been led that way; and to lure him back to it if they have strayed: in a word, to snatch him from destruction, and restore him to society a penitent and useful [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] monotonous round of home, those of its ministers who pepper the highest will be the surest to please. They who strew the Eternal Path with the greatest amount of brimstone, and who most ruthlessly tread down the flowers and leaves that grow by the wayside, will be voted the most righteous; and they who enlarge with the greatest pertinacity on the difficulty of getting into heaven, will be [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] this conclusion is arrived at. It is so at home, and it is so abroad. With regard to the other means of excitement, the Lecture, it has at least the merit of being always new. One lecture treads so quickly on the heels of another, that none are remembered; and the course of this month may be safely repeated next, with its charm of novelty unbroken, and its interest unabated.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] beneath the rolling sea, will read in language strange to any ears in being now, but very old to them, of primeval forests where the axe was never heard, and where the jungled ground was never trodden by a human foot.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] which in its soft and gentle influence, seems to comfort while it saddens. I recollect when I was a very young child having a fancy that the reflection of the moon in water was a path to Heaven, trodden by the spirits of good people on their way to God; and this old feeling often came over me again, when I watched it on a tranquil night at sea.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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“ Now, Augustine, what upon earth is this for ? ” said Miss Ophelia. “ Your house is so full of these little plagues, now, that a body can't set down their foot without treading on ’ em. I get up in the morning, and find one asleep behind the door, and see one black head poking out from under the table, one lying on the door-mat,—and they are mopping and mowing and grinning [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] He looked into several; they were mere rude shells, destitute of any species of furniture, except a heap of straw, foul with dirt, spread confusedly over the floor, which was merely the bare ground, trodden hard by the tramping of innumerable feet.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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When the dim gray of dawn woke the slumberers to go forth to the field, there was among those tattered and shivering wretches one who walked with an exultant tread; for firmer than the ground he trod on was his strong faith in Almighty, eternal love. Ah, Legree, try all your forces now ! Utmost agony, woe, degradation, want, and loss of all things, shall only hasten on the process by which he [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond ?
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)