Antonyms for tread

Grammar : Noun, verb

Spell : tred

Phonetic Transcription : trɛd

Definition of tread

Origin : Old English tredan (class V strong verb; past tense træd, past participle treden), from Proto-Germanic *tredanan (cf. Old Frisian treda, Middle Dutch treden, Old High German tretan, German treten, Gothic trudan, Old Norse troða).

noun walk
verb walk; bear down

Example sentences :

No, I will tear his image from my bosom, tread on him, spurn him.
Extract from : « Joseph Andrews, Vol. 2 » by Henry Fielding

She could hear his tread marching into her life, and could see his face.
Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown

It was fair, and so long that when standing up she could tread on it and bend her head forward.
Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt

After carrying a heavy pack so long, I seemed to tread on air.
Extract from : « The Forest » by Stewart Edward White

He took her soft hand, ere her mother could bar,— "Now tread we a measure!"
Extract from : « Graded Poetry: Second Year » by Various

All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom.
Extract from : « Graded Poetry: Second Year » by Various

The life that was within him knew that it was the one way out, the way he was predestined to tread.
Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London

By slow, but never ceasing steps, they tread the path of immortality and honour.
Extract from : « Imogen » by William Godwin

Kirsty did not go after him: she feared to tread on holy ground uninvited.
Extract from : « Heather and Snow » by George MacDonald

The noise outside subsided, but I heard the tread of feet in the ante-room.
Extract from : « The Prisoner of Zenda » by Anthony Hope

Synonyms for tread

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