tread
/tɹˈɛd/ · 1 syllable
Meaning
verb
- put down or press the foot, place the foot
“For fools rush in where angels fear to tread” - tread or stomp heavily or roughly
“The soldiers trampled across the fields” - crush as if by treading on
“tread grapes to make wine” - brace (an archer's bow) by pressing the foot against the center
- apply (the tread) to a tire
- mate with
“male birds tread the females”
noun
- a step in walking or running
- the grooved surface of a pneumatic tire
- the part (as of a wheel or shoe) that makes contact with the ground
- structural member consisting of the horizontal part of a stair or step
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Words that rhyme with tread
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