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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