Antonyms for tread
trɛdtread

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:3.0 / 4 votes

1. treadnoun

   The horizontal part of a step in a flight of stairs

   Synonyms:
   run

   Antonyms:
   riser, rise

Matched Categories

1. • Apply
   • Brace
   • Contact
   • Copulate
   • Crush
   • Move
   • Step
   • Surface
   • Walk

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:1.0 / 3 votes

1. pace, stride, treadnoun

   a step in walking or running

   Synonyms:
   gait, rate, tempo, pace, stride, step, yard, footstep

2. treadnoun

   the grooved surface of a pneumatic tire

   Synonyms:
   pace, stride

3. treadnoun

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

   Synonyms:
   pace, stride

4. treadverb

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

   Synonyms:
   pace, stride

5. step, treadverb

   put down or press the foot, place the foot

   "For fools rush in where angels fear to tread"; "step on the brake"

   Synonyms:
   maltreat, step, pace, abuse, trample, mistreat, ill-use, ill-treat

6. tread, trampleverb

   tread or stomp heavily or roughly

   "The soldiers trampled across the fields"

   Synonyms:
   tramp down, step, tread down, trample

7. treadverb

   crush as if by treading on

   "tread grapes to make wine"

   Synonyms:
   step, trample

8. treadverb

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

   Synonyms:
   step, trample

9. treadverb

   apply (the tread) to a tire

   Synonyms:
   step, trample

10. treadverb

    mate with

    "male birds tread the females"

    Synonyms:
    step, trample

How to use tread in a sentence?

1. Nitasha Sharma:

   We want to make them safe drivers. This one here is a tire tread. A lot of accidents happen in the Middle East because of a tire burst so we explain how to maintain the safety of their tire, and a lot of people move the head rest, but they don’t understand how that could impact your spine. So we have this machine to demonstrate how that could be fatal.

2. William Butler Yeates:

   Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.

3. William Butler Yeats:

   The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

4. Michael Cohen:

   I will make sure that you and I meet one day while we're in the courthouse. And I will take you for every penny you still don't have. And I will come after your Daily Beast and everybody else that you possibly know, so I'm warning you, tread very f---ing lightly, because what I'm going to do to you is going to be f---ing disgusting. You understand me?

5. Horace:

   Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

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