1. trodden - Adjective
2. trodden - Verb
Derived from tread
of Tread
p. p. of Tread.
Source: Webster's dictionaryLearning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude. Edmund Burke
As aromatic plants bestow No spicy fragrance while they grow But crush'd or trodden to the ground, Diffuse their balmy sweets around. Oliver Goldsmith
By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond? Harriet Beecher Stowe
A trodden path bears no grass. English Proverb
He who lies on the ground must expect to be trodden on. German Proverb
Green is the grass of the least trodden field. Scottish Gaelic Proverb