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trodden carefully

trodden carefully is the past participle 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 trodden carefully

What is trodden carefully the past participle of?
Trodden carefully is the past participle of tread carefully.

Words near trodden carefully in the dictionary

  1. trod upon
  2. trod water
  3. trodded
  4. trodden
  5. trodden a measure
  6. trodden carefully
  7. trodden down
  8. trodden in someone's footsteps
  9. trodden in someone's steps
  10. trodden lightly
  11. trodden on

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Adapted from Wiktionary: trodden 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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