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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

Home from the Stevn King Byrgye rode; Up to him Marsk Stig’s daughters trode.

From Marsk Stig's Daughters and other Songs and Ballads by Borrow, George Henry

Sir John Cope trode the north right far, Yet ne'er a rebel he cam naur, Until he landed at Dunbar, Right early in the morning.

From The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.) by Thomson, James Pringle

The sands on which we trode were burning, nevertheless several of us walked on these scorching coals without shoes; and the females had nothing but their hair for a cap.

From Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770. by Maxwell, Patrick

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