Etymology

totread

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Today it means: To tread in pieces. Full definition →

Middle English totreden
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  1. Middle English · inherited fromtotreden
  2. English todaytotread

From Middle English totreden, equivalent to to- + tread.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.