Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To tread back; go back through in the same steps; retrace.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To tread back; to retrace.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To retread (one's steps) in the opposite direction; to walk back.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ tread

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Examples

  • There are moments when I would untread the paths that I have trod.

    Hunger 1922

  • The question was formally debated before the Council, whether, even at this point, they should untread their steps, and, throwing themselves upon the Czarina's mercy, return to their old allegiance?

    Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers — Volume 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822

  • The question was formally debated before the Council, whether, even at this point, they should untread their steps, and, throwing themselves upon the Czarina's mercy, return to their old allegiance?

    Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers Thomas De Quincey 1822

  • Council, whether, even at this point, they should untread their steps, and, throwing themselves upon the Czarina's 30 mercy, return to their old allegiance.

    De Quincey's Revolt of the Tartars Thomas De Quincey 1822

  • MARK > ALL READ many time (by mistake) I click over ALL READ, which is very inconvenient, because it resets the untread mark on all notes.

    unknown title 2009

  • MARK > ALL READ many time (by mistake) I click over ALL READ, which is very inconvenient, because it resets the untread mark on all notes.

    unknown title 2009

  • MARK > ALL READ many time (by mistake) I click over ALL READ, which is very inconvenient, because it resets the untread mark on all notes.

    unknown title 2009

  • Whore ii the horfe, that doth untread zg9Aik His tedious meafure wi'th 'uabated Ate,

    The Works of Shakespeare: Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected 1773

  • Sai We do believe thee; and be (hrew my fowl But I do love the favour and the form Of this moft fair occafion, by the which We will untread the fteps of damned flighty And, like a bated and retired jQood,

    Works 1795

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