fortread means to tread down; tread underfoot; trample upon; crush; destroy by trampling. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 90 out of 100.
Why “fortread” is a great word
FORTREAD — [Verb] To tread down, trample upon, or crush underfoot, implying total destruction. From Middle English fortreden, from Old English fortredan ('to tread down, trample on'), from the Proto-Germanic prefix *fra- (expressing completion or destruction) combined with *tredaną ('to tread'). Unlike 'trample,' which suggests a heavy, careless step, or 'subdue,' which implies a broader conquest, to fortread is to enact a deliberate, thorough annihilation with the sole of the boot. It is the heel grinding a hornet into the grain of a porch step, the workboot collapsing the delicate vault of a mouse's burrow, and the slow, patient stamp that reduces a smoldering ember to ash—a quiet, absolute violence measured in footprints and finality.
Etymology
From Middle English fortreden, from Old English fortredan (“to tread down, trample on”), from Proto-Germanic *fratredaną, *fratrudaną (“to trample”), equivalent to for- + tread. Compare Saterland Frisian fertreede, Dutch vertreden (“to trample”), German Low German vertreden, German vertreten ("to represent"; < Old High German firtretan (“to trample”)).
verb
- To tread down; tread underfoot; trample upon; crush; destroy by trampling.