Definitions for trod

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IPA: /trɒd/

Trod is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 31 anagrams from letters in trod (dort).

Definitions for trod

noun

1. the action of treading, stepping, or walking.
2. the sound of footsteps.
3. manner of treading or walking.
4. a single step as in walking.
5. any of various things or parts on which a person or thing treads, stands, or moves.
6. the part of the under surface of the foot or of a shoe that touches the ground.
7. the horizontal upper surface of a step in a stair, on which the foot is placed.
8. the part of a wheel, tire, or runner that bears on the road, rail, etc.
9. the pattern raised on or cut into the face of a rubber tire.
10. Also, caterpillar tread. a metal tread on which a Caterpillar-style vehicle moves.
11. Railroads. that part of a rail in contact with the treads of wheels.

verb

1. a simple past tense and past participle of tread.

Idioms

1. tread on someone's toes / corns, to offend or irritate someone.
2. tread the boards, to act on the stage, especially professionally:
3. tread water, Swimming. to maintain the body erect in the water with the head above the surface usually by a pumping up-and-down movement of the legs and sometimes the arms. Slang. to make efforts that maintain but do not further one's status, progress, or performance:

verb (used with object)

1. to step or walk on, about, in, or along.
2. to trample or crush underfoot.
3. to form by the action of walking or trampling:
4. to treat with disdainful harshness or cruelty; crush; oppress.
5. to perform by walking or dancing:
6. (of a male bird) to copulate with (a female bird).

verb (used without object)

1. to set down the foot or feet in walking; step; walk.
2. to step, walk, or trample so as to press, crush, or injure something (usually followed by on or upon):
3. (of a male bird) to copulate.

Origin of trod

before 900; (v.) Middle English treden, Old English tredan; cognate with Old Frisian treda, Old Saxon tredan, Dutch treden, German treten; akin to Old Norse trotha, Gothic trudan; (noun) Midd

Examples for trod

We had to move slowly, as at every step we trod upon the dying or the dead.

The earth he trod was like no other ground he had ever walked upon.

Where they trod it was as if peach pits were crushed beneath their feet.

Keep ever in the one straight path Of duty they have trod; And guided by the same pure light Of love, for man and God.

On mounting the steps at the Thtre Franais I trod on a lady's dress.

Ensuring more diverse images of women in the worlds of both music and media was a path Latifah decided to trod long ago.

They called to Madame Gaudron to be careful how she trod on account of her condition.

I looked with awe at the ground I trod on, to see what the Powers had made there, the form and fashion and material of their work.

Since graduating from Simmons College as a business major in 1958, Ruth had trod a conventional path.

In any case, recent events had got me wondering how many Americans had trod the usual path but in reverse.