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treading

noun as in threshing

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To be clear, I was not treading anywhere near the even more incomprehensible realm of (gasp) relationship definition.

Ashes & Fire, a pleasant, folky, water-treading effort, followed in 2011.

A rising tide lifts all boats…but a lifeboat carrying a few, surrounded by many treading water, risks capsizing.

When pressed on what he thought of Kilborn, Colbert replied: “He was really good at treading the teleprompter.”

Ciancia was an angry patriot who apparently felt that TSA officers were treading on the constitutional rights of Americans.

All of it was worthless—except to a man of vision—so, treading lightly, Scattergood went about acquiring what he needed.

You never can tell, Phyllis murmured, treading through the grass more warily.

Unresisting he was led blindly on through the gloom, the captors treading rapidly.

He turned toward the fair-haired lady and cried out like a man treading on a serpent.

He hastily raised his foot and took a further step with the same result: he thought he must be treading on eggs.

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On this page you'll find 8 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to treading, such as: beating, flailing, garnering, harvesting, separating, and sifting.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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