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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

Memory and imagination, acting together, bore him to the shores of the Mediterranean; and as he trode the smooth beach, his eye wandered, with transport, to the blue Alpujarras, stretching dimly in the interior.

From Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico by Bird, Robert Montgomery

But for mere scholars, that never trode the path of chivalry, to think me mad, I despise and laugh at it.

From The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de

This leads me to speak of another region which Christina Rossetti trode with an eager familiarity—the land of dreams and visions.

From Essays by Benson, Arthur Christopher

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