intransitive verb. To walk on, over, or along.

intransitive verb. To press beneath the feet; trample.

intransitive verb. To treat unjustly or harshly; oppress.

intransitive verb. To form by walking or trampling.

intransitive verb. To execute by walking or dancing.

intransitive verb. To copulate with. Used of a male bird.

intransitive verb. undefined

intransitive verb. To go on foot; walk.

intransitive verb. To set down the foot; step.

intransitive verb. undefined

intransitive verb. To trample something. Used with on or upon.

intransitive verb. To treat someone or something unjustly or harshly. Used with on or upon.

intransitive verb. To copulate. Used of birds.

noun. undefined

noun. The act, manner, or sound of treading.

noun. An instance of treading; a step.

noun. A mark made by treading, as in snow.

noun. The upper horizontal part of a step in a staircase.

noun. undefined

noun. The part of a wheel or tire that makes contact with the road or rails.

noun. The grooved face of a tire.

noun. The part of a shoe sole that touches the ground.

noun. Either of the continuous ridged belts with which bulldozers, tanks, and certain other vehicles move over the ground.

idiom. (tread the boards) To act on the stage.

idiom. (tread water) To keep the head above water while in an upright position by pumping the legs.

idiom. (tread water) To expend effort but make little or no progress to achievement of a goal or an end.

noun. Any horizontal element in a floor upon which the walker treads or presses, and so gives an alarm or makes a signal.

To form puddles under the tread of horses: said of the ground.

To set the foot down, as on the ground.

To press or be put down on or as on the ground.

To walk; step; especially, to walk with a more or less stately, measured, or cautious step.

To copulate, as birds: said especially of a cock-bird.

To follow closely.

To step or walk on.

To beat or press with the feet: as, a well-trodden path.

To crush under the foot; trample in contempt or hatred.

To dance.

To walk.

To copulate with or cover, as a bird.

To destroy, extinguish, or obliterate by or as by treading or trampling.

noun. A step or stepping; footing; pressure with the foot.

noun. Way; track; path. See trade, n. 2.

noun. Copulation, as of birds.

noun. The cicatricula of an egg: so called from the former erroneous belief that it appeared only in fecundated eggs laid by the hen after the tread of the cock. Compare treadle.

noun. Manner of stepping: as, a horse with a good tread.

noun. The flat or horizontal part of a step or stair; a tread-board.

noun. The length of a ship's keel.

noun. The bearing surface of a wheel or of a runner on a road or rail.

noun. The part of a rail on which the wheels bear.

noun. The part of a stilt on which the foot rests.

"Oxford English Dictionary traces the expression "tread upon eggs" back to the 1700s, when someone named Roger North wrote: "This gave him occasion ... to find if any slip had been made for he all along trod upon eggs.""

rise  riser  

rubber tread  to have the black ox tread on one's foot  to tread awry  to tread down  to tread in one's steps(or footsteps)  

to tread upon  

tread water  untrod  

apply  brace  contact  copulate  couple  

Ed  Fed  Fred  Freda  Ged  

beat  cadence  clatter  creak  footstep  

action  amble  ambulate  amount  ankle  

interfere  trod  trodden  

treaded  treades  treading  treads  trod