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- verb Simple past of
overtread .
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Examples
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At first, Soldier's Boy only asked questions and listened solemnly to every answer, even when Jodoli tediously overtrod ground well known to both of them.
Renegade's Magic Hobb, Robin 2008
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Johnny Milne's outgoing track of 7: 15, but his returning footmarks of ten minutes to eight overtrod the cycle tracks, so they had been made since it passed.
Young Knights of the Empire : Their Code, and Further Scout Yarns Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell Baden-Powell of Gilwell 1899
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And the world's wheels grind your spirits down the dust ye overtrod:
The Heptalogia Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873
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Because at 7.33 the train came with the newspapers, and there were his tracks going back again, (_They occasionally overtrod the outgoing footprints.
Young Knights of the Empire : Their Code, and Further Scout Yarns Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell Baden-Powell of Gilwell 1899
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