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- verb Past participle of
overtread
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Examples
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Most of the men were wearing Israeli-style para boots with a zigzag-patterned sole, and those coming up from behind had overtrodden the spoor of the leaders.
The Seventh Scroll Smith, Wilbur 1995
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In very remote times he had appeared to the Bishop of Avranches and commanded him to build a church on Mount Tombe, in such a place as he should find a bull hidden by thieves; and the site of the building was to include the whole area overtrodden by the bull.
The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 Anatole France 1884
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On page 47, "overtrodden shoes" is hardly so good as the idiomatic "down at the heel."
Among My Books First Series James Russell Lowell 1855
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