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Meanings of trodden in English

Trampled.

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Usage of trodden in English
1
Large sections of the book, it must be said, revisit well-trodden ground.
The Irish Times
2
History teaches that the path to war is a well trodden one.
The Irish Times
3
The old, trodden, half-cleansed door-mat in her hands,-thejust-createdbeauty in his.
The Other Girls
4
The lawn, the grounds were trodden and waste: the portal yawned void.
Jane Eyre: An Autobiography
5
And that you have trodden me down in the struggle for existence.
The Journal of Arthur Stirling : ("The Valley of the Shadow")
6
And the trodden earth held fresh and plain the trail he sought.
Wolf Breed
7
He brushed up the trodden grass and carefully smoothed the trampled earth.
The Teeth of the Tiger
8
Rupert gasped, not a bit of it; only almost trodden to death.
The Cornet of Horse: A Tale of Marlborough's Wars
9
The down trodden Native American won the day in my epic films.
The Irish Times
10
They shall be trodden as ashes beneath the feet of the righteous.
The Destiny of the Soul: A Critical History of the Doctrine of a...
11
Felix the Roman governor was a specimen of the trodden way side.
The Parables of Our Lord
12
But there were no tracks in the softer soil, no trodden-down grass.
The Everlasting Whisper
13
Even this is the righteous path that is trodden by the righteous.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 / Books 13...
14
The mechanical feet pounded away, the soldiers following on the trodden snow.
Geomancer (Well of Echoes)
15
It was harvest-time, and the crops and vineyards were mercilessly trodden down.
Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II
16
The ritual proceeded along well-trodden, predictable paths, which proved, nonetheless, unexpectedly satisfying.
The Flanders Panel
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Trodden across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Rare