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trodden |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. Where'er you tread, the blushing flowers shall rise. --Pope. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. --Pope. The hard stone Under our feet, on which we tread and go --Chaucer. 2. To walk or go especially, to walk with a stately or a cautious step. Ye that . . . stately tread, or lowly creep. --Milton. 3. To copulate; said of birds, esp. the males. --Shak. {To tread on} or {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. One woe doth tread upon another's heel. --Shak. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Trodden \Trod"den\, p. p. of {Tread}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: trodden adj : crushed or broken by being stepped upon heavily; "her trampled flowers lay crushed and broken"; "the grass was trodden and muddy" [syn: {trampled}]
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