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trodden down

trodden down is the past participle of tread down.

Meaning of tread down

Verb

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

  1. To trample

Questions about trodden down

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

Words near trodden down in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: trodden down (page history and authors); tread down (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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