Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To beat down with the feet so as to crush, bruise, or destroy; tramp on.
- v. To treat harshly or ruthlessly: would trample anyone who got in their way.
- v. To tread heavily or destructively: trampling on the flowers.
- v. To inflict injury as if by treading heavily: "trampling on the feelings of those about you” ( Thornton Wilder).
- n. The action or sound of trampling.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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.
- To tread with repeated force and shock; stamp; hence, to tramp roughshod; tread roughly or contemptuously.
- n. A frequent heavy or rough tread; a trampling.
Wiktionary
- v. To crush and destroy something by walking on it.
- v. To treat someone harshly.
- v. To walk heavily and destructively.
- v. To cause emotional injury as if by trampling.
- n. the sound of heavy footsteps
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To tread under foot; to tread down; to prostrate by treading.
- v. Fig.: To treat with contempt and insult.
- v. To tread with force and rapidity; to stamp.
- v. To tread in contempt; -- with
on orupon . - n. The act of treading under foot; also, the sound produced by trampling.
WordNet 3.0
- v. walk on and flatten
- v. tread or stomp heavily or roughly
- v. injure by trampling or as if by trampling
- n. the sound of heavy treading or stomping
Etymologies
- Middle English tramplen, frequentative of trampen, to tramp; see tramp.
Examples
“Lisa Madigan, who is the political combine's best hope in 2010 to keep the cycle of old-style politics going, takes money from lobbyists and cronies as she works as the state's chief legal officer and says the reason she has knowingly ignored the violation of state laws by her fellow politicians is because she might "trample" on what the Feds "might do someday.”
“They collect crowds to fill theatres, and there they introduce choirs of harlots and prostituted children, yea such as trample on nature herself; and they make the whole people sit on high, and so they captivate their city; so they crown these mighty kings whom they are perpetually admiring for their trophies and victories.”
NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians
“CAW president Ken Lewenza said such a provision would "trample" workers 'rights.”
“Meadowbrook Middle School principal Cherie Washington says her team is going to "trample" Handley Middle School.”
“At the same time, Makhmalbaf warned that the West should not "trample" on the Green Movement by fully embracing Iran's regime if it eventually reverses course on nuclear talks.”
“Elaborate security arrangements are being made in view of the two-day 'shutdown' called by banned CPI (Maoist) in Bihar from October 12 against Centre's move to "trample" its agitation with application of”
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“But the technology may 'trample' civil liberties and privacy rights, warns Graeme Norton of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.”
“He further added that he doesn't want to "trample" on the rights "of" straight "soldiers:”
“If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and then turn and tear you to pieces.”
“A reformed health care system does not trample your free choice to pick your health care providers and plans nor does impinge on any other of your freedoms.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘trample’.
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movement (fast)
words describing fast action or movement
( randomness, descriptive )hurry, run, scamper, skip, stride, stampede, trample, scramble, dart, spring, spin, sprint and 140 more...
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bad memory
copper, anvil, oblique, thrust, shrine, welfare, farewell, bitter, faction, sectarian, tangible, spectacle and 132 more...
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Phonestheme: TR-, the Long Walk
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trudge, trot, trek, tread, tramp, trample, track, trip, tromp, traverse, traipse, travail
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I am : moving
Words to describe gait and movement.
walk, run, trot, jog, canter, gallop, skip, crawl, slink, slither, amble, trundle and 69 more...
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[Open] Frequentative
“A verb which denotes the frequent occurrence or repetition of an action, as . . . waggle from wag.” — Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia.
Other examples include bobble (bob), bustle (b...dartle, stutter, agitate, dabble, waggle, aid, argue, daunt, expect, excite, espouse, dictate and 77 more...
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