踏む

Meaning

1. v5mvt
   to step on; to tread on; to trample on
2. v5mvt
   to set foot on (e.g. foreign soil); to stand on; to visit
3. v5mvt
   to experience; to undergo
4. v5mvt
   to follow (rules, principles, etc.); to go through (e.g. formalities); to complete
5. v5mvt
   to estimate; to guess; to judge; to value; to appraise
6. v5mvt
   to rhyme
7. v5mvt
   to succeed to (e.g. the throne)

Example sentences

• 殺してやる！ぶっ殺して、踏み潰してやる！くそったれ！死ね！

  I'll kill you! Knock your block off and grind you underfoot! You shithead! Die!

• 私はもっと敵の抵抗があると踏んでたんだけど、むしろ中枢に進むほど敵が減ってきてる・・・。おかしいと思わないかしら？

  I had expected stronger resistance from the enemy but if anything there are less of them as we advance to the centre... Don't you think that's strange?

• それで雪を踏み固めてブロックを作り、それを積むような方法が適しているんですね。

  And so the method that works is treading down the snow to harden it, making blocks and piling them up.