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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

The Somali trode gingerly on ahead, picking his way through the flowery sward, as if afraid to leave the slightest trail.

From Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy by Gordon Stables

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 Arthur Christopher Benson

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

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