Movement
Synonyms for tread
The synonym for tread recorded in this bank is step, in the sense "put down or press the foot, place the foot". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for tread
- stepverb, in the sense "put down or press the foot, place the foot"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for tread.
put down or press the foot, place the foot
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
The true synonym
step
Same sentence, swapped: For fools rush in where angels fear to step.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for tread in the sentence quoted.
- trample
- caravan
- automobile
Where tread turns up in the game
tread is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play tread
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so tread reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from movement at Treeline outward to the whole bank.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. tread carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.