Trample

//ˈtɹæmpəl// noun, verb

noun, verb ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A heavy stepping.

    "Newly harvested grapes are poured into a vast vat for everyone to have a good trample upon […]"

  2. 2
    the sound of heavy treading or stomping wordnet
  3. 3
    The sound of heavy footsteps.
Verb
  1. 1
    To crush something by walking on it. transitive

    "to trample grass or flowers"

  2. 2
    injure by trampling or as if by trampling wordnet
  3. 3
    To treat someone harshly. broadly
  4. 4
    walk on and flatten wordnet
  5. 5
    To walk heavily and destructively. intransitive

    "June 9, 1960, Charles Dickens, All the Year Round […] horses proud of the crimson and yellow shaving-brushes on their heads, and of the sharp tingling bells upon their harness that chime far along the glaring white road along which they trample […]"

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  1. 6
    tread or stomp heavily or roughly wordnet
  2. 7
    To cause emotional injury as if by trampling. broadly

    "to trample on our Maker's laws"

Synonyms

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treadtreadbeatbreak downcalcateclop

Example

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"You should not trample on other people's rights."

Etymology

From Middle English tramplen, trampelen (“to walk heavily”), equivalent to tramp + -le. Cognate with Saterland Frisian trampelje (“to trample”), Dutch trampelen (“to trample”), German Low German trampeln (“to trample”), German trampeln (“to trample”).

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trample out

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