Definition of "trodden" []

• A past participle of tread. (verb)

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• "The way we as a people treat the poor and the marginalized and the down-trodden is perhaps the most deeply considered question in the Scriptures."
• "As Ian Maclaren says, "The path was well trodden from the farmhouse to the university.""
• "Those houses, or rather dens, which stand there, have no sign of footway, or anything else trodden, which is one of the chiefest tokens of habitation."