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What is the verb for trodding?

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tread
  1. (intransitive) To step or walk (on or over something); to trample.
  2. (transitive) To step or walk upon.
  3. To beat or press with the feet.
  4. To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, etc.
  5. To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue.
  6. (intransitive) To copulate; said of (especially male) birds.
  7. (transitive, of a male bird) To copulate with.
  8. Synonyms:
  9. Examples:
    1. “My bare feet tread lightly on the dirt floor, sweat already beginning to bead on my brow.”
      “Hither came Conan to tread the jeweled thrones of earth under his sandaled feet.”
      “There are moments in our relationships with other people, more often than we realize, when we may tread on their dreams.”
trod
  1. To walk heavily or laboriously; plod; tread
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “George is an actor who has trod the boards with many of the big names in British theatre.”
      “Lured to the stage, he trod the boards for fifteen years as an actor, producer, and playwright.”
      “Timothy trod in his footsteps, and loved to care for the saints, but he could not say this of all.”
treading
trod
  1. simple past tense of tread
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “George is an actor who has trod the boards with many of the big names in British theatre.”
      “Lured to the stage, he trod the boards for fifteen years as an actor, producer, and playwright.”
      “Timothy trod in his footsteps, and loved to care for the saints, but he could not say this of all.”
trodden
trode
  1. Obsolete spelling of trod
treads
treadeth
  1. (archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative form of tread
trods
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of trod
  2. Examples:
    1. “Coinciding with the moon landing of Apollo 11, the gates of Faerie flood open and Trods and balefires reawaken.”
treadest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of tread
troddest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple past form of tread
trodded
  1. simple past tense and past participle of trod
  2. Examples:
    1. “It didn't matter that the path we trodded was pretty unbearably unlistenable.”
      “It renders the paths, and the banks of the bayous in that region almost impassable in autumn, until the cattle have trodded it down.”
trodding
  1. present participle of trod
  2. Examples:
    1. “There are some lines about how humans have messed up the world by trodding and trodding and trodding on it.”
      “I could see them with their suitcases trodding from their mother's to their father's house with never a home of their own.”
      “A fresh venture in analyzing Gandhi's thought must justify itself by charting out a new direction, not by trodding the beaten path, even when the trodding has been done in great style.”
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