tread

tread is a 5-letter English word with 28 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To set the foot; to step. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 6 · 28 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To set the foot; to step.
2. intransitive verb. To walk or go; especially, to walk with a stately or a cautious step.
3. intransitive verb. To copulate; said of birds, esp. the males.
4. transitive verb. To step or walk on.
5. transitive verb. To beat or press with the feet; as, to tread a path; to tread land when too light; a well-trodden path.
6. transitive verb. To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, or the like.
7. transitive verb. To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue.
8. transitive verb. To copulate with; to feather; to cover; -- said of the male bird.
9. noun. A step or stepping; pressure with the foot; a footstep; as, a nimble tread; a cautious tread.
10. noun. Manner or style of stepping; action; gait; as, the horse has a good tread.
11. noun. Way; track; path.
12. noun. The act of copulation in birds.
13. noun. The upper horizontal part of a step, on which the foot is placed.
14. noun. The top of the banquette, on which soldiers stand to fire over the parapet.
15. noun. The part of a wheel that bears upon the road or rail.
16. noun. The part of a rail upon which car wheels bear.
17. noun. The chalaza of a bird's egg; the treadle.
18. noun. A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes. See Interfere, 3.
19. noun. a step in walking or running

    Synonyms: pace, stride

20. noun. structural member consisting of the horizontal part of a stair or step
21. noun. the part (as of a wheel or shoe) that makes contact with the ground
22. noun. the grooved surface of a pneumatic tire
23. verb. brace (an archer's bow) by pressing the foot against the center
24. verb. mate with

    "male birds tread the females"

25. verb. crush as if by treading on

    "tread grapes to make wine"

26. verb. tread or stomp heavily or roughly

    "The soldiers trampled across the fields"

    Synonyms: trample

27. verb. put down or press the foot, place the foot

    "For fools rush in where angels fear to tread"

    "step on the brake"

    Synonyms: step

28. verb. apply (the tread) to a tire

Synonyms

pace, stride, trample, step

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in tread:

adret, dater, derat, detar, drate, rated, tarde, tared, trade

Common word forms

treads, treaded, treader, treading, treadless

Words from these letters

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