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Trample vs. Tread — What's the Difference?

Trample vs. Tread — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Trample and Tread

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Trample

To beat down with the feet so as to crush, bruise, or destroy; tramp on.

Tread

To walk on, over, or along
Tread the pavement.

Trample

To treat harshly or ruthlessly
Would trample anyone who got in their way.

Tread

To press beneath the feet; trample
Dirt that was trodden into the rug.

Trample

To tread heavily or destructively
Trampling on the flowers.
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Tread

To treat unjustly or harshly; oppress
People who were trodden down by tyrants.

Trample

To inflict injury as if by treading heavily
"trampling on the feelings of those about you" (Thornton Wilder).

Tread

To form by walking or trampling
Tread a path.

Trample

The action or sound of trampling.

Tread

To execute by walking or dancing
Tread a measure.

Trample

(transitive) To crush something by walking on it.
To trample grass or flowers

Tread

To copulate with. Used of a male bird.

Trample

(by extension) To treat someone harshly.

Tread

To go on foot; walk.

Trample

(intransitive) To walk heavily and destructively.

Tread

To set down the foot; step.

Trample

(by extension) To cause emotional injury as if by trampling.

Tread

To trample something. Used with on or upon
Don't tread on the new grass.

Trample

A heavy stepping.

Tread

To treat someone or something unjustly or harshly. Used with on or upon
A regime treading upon the rights of the citizens.

Trample

The sound of heavy footsteps.

Tread

To copulate. Used of birds.

Trample

To tread under foot; to tread down; to prostrate by treading; as, to trample grass or flowers.
Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet.

Tread

The act, manner, or sound of treading.

Trample

Fig.: To treat with contempt and insult.

Tread

An instance of treading; a step.

Trample

To tread with force and rapidity; to stamp.

Tread

A mark made by treading, as in snow.

Trample

To tread in contempt; - with on or upon.
Diogenes trampled on Plato's pride with greater of his own.

Tread

The upper horizontal part of a step in a staircase.

Trample

The act of treading under foot; also, the sound produced by trampling.
The huddling trample of a drove of sheep.

Tread

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

Trample

The sound of heavy treading or stomping;
He heard the trample of many feet

Tread

The grooved face of a tire.

Trample

Tread or stomp heavily or roughly;
The soldiers trampled across the fields

Tread

The part of a shoe sole that touches the ground.

Trample

Injure by trampling or as if by trampling;
The passerby was trampled by an elephant

Tread

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

Trample

Walk on and flatten;
Tramp down the grass
Trample the flowers

Tread

(intransitive) To step or walk (on or across something); to trample.
He trod back and forth wearily.
Don't tread on the lawn.

Tread

(transitive) To step or walk upon.
Actors tread the boards.

Tread

To proceed, to behave (in a certain manner).
To tread lightly, to tread gently
To tread carefully, to tread cautiously, to tread warily

Tread

To beat or press with the feet.
To tread a path; to tread land when too light; a well-trodden path

Tread

To work a lever, treadle, etc., with the foot or the feet.

Tread

To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, etc.

Tread

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

Tread

(intransitive) To copulate; said of (especially male) birds.

Tread

To copulate with.

Tread

(transitive) To crush grapes with one's feet to make wine

Tread

A step taken with the foot.

Tread

A manner of stepping.

Tread

The sound made when someone or something is walking.

Tread

(obsolete) A way; a track or path.

Tread

The horizontal part of a step in a flight of stairs.

Tread

The grooves carved into the face of a tire, used to give the tire traction.

Tread

The grooves on the bottom of a shoe or other footwear, used to give grip or traction.

Tread

(biology) The chalaza of a bird's egg; the treadle.

Tread

The act of avian copulation in which the male bird mounts the female by standing on her back.

Tread

(fortification) The top of the banquette, on which soldiers stand to fire over the parapet.

Tread

A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes, or strikes its feet together.

Tread

To set the foot; to step.
Where'er you tread, the blushing flowers shall rise.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
The hard stoneUnder our feet, on which we tread and go.

Tread

To walk or go; especially, to walk with a stately or a cautious step.
Ye that . . . stately tread, or lowly creep.

Tread

To copulate; said of birds, esp. the males.
One woe doth tread upon another's heel.

Tread

To step or walk on.
Forbid to tread the promised land he saw.
Methought she trod the ground with greater grace.

Tread

To beat or press with the feet; as, to tread a path; to tread land when too light; a well-trodden path.

Tread

To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, or the like.
They have measured many a mile,To tread a measure with you on this grass.

Tread

To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue.
Through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.

Tread

To copulate with; to feather; to cover; - said of the male bird.

Tread

A step or stepping; pressure with the foot; a footstep; as, a nimble tread; a cautious tread.
She is coming, my own, my sweet;Were it ever so airy a tread,My heart would hear her and beat.

Tread

Manner or style of stepping; action; gait; as, the horse has a good tread.

Tread

Way; track; path.

Tread

The act of copulation in birds.

Tread

The upper horizontal part of a step, on which the foot is placed.

Tread

The top of the banquette, on which soldiers stand to fire over the parapet.

Tread

The part of a wheel that bears upon the road or rail.

Tread

The chalaza of a bird's egg; the treadle.

Tread

A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes. See Interfere, 3.

Tread

A step in walking or running

Tread

The grooved surface of a pneumatic tire

Tread

The part (as of a wheel or shoe) that makes contact with the ground

Tread

Structural member consisting of the horizontal part of a stair or step

Tread

Put down or press the foot, place the foot;
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread
Step on the brake

Tread

Tread or stomp heavily or roughly;
The soldiers trampled across the fields

Tread

Crush as if by treading on;
Tread grapes to make wine

Tread

Brace (an archer's bow) by pressing the foot against the center

Tread

Apply (the tread) to a tire

Tread

Mate with;
Male birds tread the females

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