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trod carefully

trod carefully is the simple past of tread carefully.

Meaning of tread carefully

Verb

tread carefully (third-person singular simple present treads carefully, present participle treading carefully, simple past trod carefully, past participle trodden carefully)

  1. (idiomatic) To exercise precaution; to be careful with regards to the situation; to tread lightly.

Questions about trod carefully

What is trod carefully the simple past of?
Trod carefully is the simple past of tread carefully.

Words near trod carefully in the dictionary

  1. troctolite
  2. troctolites
  3. troctolitic
  4. trod
  5. trod a measure
  6. trod carefully
  7. trod down
  8. trod in someone's footsteps
  9. trod in someone's steps
  10. trod lightly
  11. trod on

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Adapted from Wiktionary: trod carefully (page history and authors); tread carefully (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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