tread down

1. 1.

   walk on and flatten

   “tramp down the grass”

   “trample the flowers”

   Synonymstramp downtrample

   Broaderwalk

Questions about tread down

What does tread down mean?

tread down means "walk on and flatten".

What is another word for tread down?

Close synonyms include tramp down, trample. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tread down a common word?

tread down is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.