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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To beat down with the feet so as to crush, bruise, or destroy; tramp on.
  2. v. To treat harshly or ruthlessly: would trample anyone who got in their way.
  3. v. To tread heavily or destructively: trampling on the flowers.
  4. v. To inflict injury as if by treading heavily: "trampling on the feelings of those about you” ( Thornton Wilder).
  5. n. The action or sound of trampling.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To beat or tread down by the tramping or stamping of feet, or by frequent treading; prostrate or crush by treading under foot; tread upon or tread down, literally or figuratively.
  2. To tread with repeated force and shock; stamp; hence, to tramp roughshod; tread roughly or contemptuously.
  3. n. A frequent heavy or rough tread; a trampling.

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive To crush and destroy something by walking on it.
  2. v. by extension To treat someone harshly.
  3. v. intransitive To walk heavily and destructively.
  4. v. by extension To cause emotional injury as if by trampling.
  5. n. the sound of heavy footsteps

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To tread under foot; to tread down; to prostrate by treading.
  2. v. Fig.: To treat with contempt and insult.
  3. v. To tread with force and rapidity; to stamp.
  4. v. To tread in contempt; -- with on or upon.
  5. n. The act of treading under foot; also, the sound produced by trampling.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. walk on and flatten
  2. v. tread or stomp heavily or roughly
  3. v. injure by trampling or as if by trampling
  4. n. the sound of heavy treading or stomping

Etymologies

  1. tramp +‎ -le (frequentative). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English tramplen, frequentative of trampen, to tramp; see tramp. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (9)

Words with the same meaning

  1. stamp
  1. tread
  1. betrample
  1. tramp
  1. overtread
  1. overtrample
  1. hobnail
  1. poach
  1. walk

hypernyms (4)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. walk
  1. injure
  1. wound
  1. sound

same context (23)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. clopping
  2. clop
  3. drumbeat
  4. clacking
  1. stampede
  2. pattering
  3. cussing
  4. lowing
  1. patter
  2. drove
  3. plashing
  4. scuffle
  1. neigh
  2. tramp
  3. plod
  4. clank
  1. clatter
  2. footfall
  3. scuffling
  4. whoosh
  1. trotting
  2. scurry
  3. jingle

rhymes (3)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. ample
  1. example
  1. sample

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. insult
  2. conculcate
  3. overtread
  1. betrample
  2. tromp
  3. womanfully
  1. defoil
  2. defoul
  3. fortread
  1. foil
  2. tread
  3. stomp
  1. tramp
  2. hoof
  3. override
  1. trample
  2. paddle
  3. waddle

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