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trode

British  
/ trəʊd /

verb

  1. archaic a past tense of tread

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Seven months later, the result was the same for Namajunas, even if the path she and Weili trode was unfamiliar.

From Seattle Times Nov. 6, 2021

Three wire-service reporters* trode up the gangplank of the destroyer Lang; the destroyer Jouett stood by.

From Time Magazine Archive

Through the low west window a cold light   flows On the floor where never my numb feet trode Before; onward the strange road goes.

From Bay A Book of Poems by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Before the days of Sir Cornelius Vermuyden it was part of the bottom of the sea, and its inhabitants, as they are described by Camden, trode about on stilts, and lived by snaring waterfowl.

From Contemporary Socialism by John Rae

Now pois'd her hand A javelin light, and now a bow she bore: In Dian's train she ran, nor nymph more dear To her the mountain Mænalus e'er trode.

From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by J. J. Howard

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