footmark
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2.4
- noun
- /ˈfutˌmɑrk/
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Examples
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No footmarks were to be found on the path but there could be no question that someone had passed along the grass border, which lines it.
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After a few minutes, he turned and went back across the room, and again his footmarks temporarily disturbed the carpet.
Fiction book (1998) -
You found footmarks there?
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Eventually, a figure slipped away down the narrow paths of the shrubbery, leaving a trail of footmarks on the sodden grass, the indentations of high-heeled shoes.
Fiction book (1990) -
The detective examined the footmark in the mud to determine who had passed that way.
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A single footmark was visible in the snow, indicating that someone had walked through the area.
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The explorers documented each footmark they found to track the animal's movements in the forest.
Synonyms
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2.0
A mark left on a surface by a hand, foot, or paw
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1.6
A mark left by a foot or shoe on a surface
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4.2
A mark made when something presses into a surface or the tool that makes it
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3.7
A mark a boot makes on a surface that often shows the sole pattern
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Footmark is made of foot and mark, so it means 'a mark made by a foot'. Like the common word footprint, a footmark is the trace left by a foot or shoe on a surface.