trample

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  1. transitive verb To beat down with the feet so as to crush, bruise, or destroy; tramp on.
  2. transitive verb To treat harshly or ruthlessly: would trample anyone who got in their way.
  3. intransitive verb To tread heavily or destructively: trampling on the flowers.
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  • But if someone showed too much of the wrong kind of interest in her when she was young, believe it Dad would have been like a bull whose pasture you just trespassed -- trample and gore first, ask questions later. —  Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines
  • Markets are there to serve our society, not to suck the joy out of it or trample over its values. —  Warren Ellis
  • Then they'll trample the rest of Europe through the end of April. —  Headbangers Blog
  • For more on this point, see Foreclosures hit tenants (Activists: New owners trample on renters 'rights). —  The Home Equity Theft Reporter Cases & Articles
  • CAW president Ken Lewenza said such a provision would "trample" workers 'rights. —  LabourStart
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clopping ·  clop ·  drumbeat ·  clacking ·  stampede ·  pattering ·  cussing ·  lowing ·  patter ·  drove ·  plashing ·  scuffle

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trample:   trampling ·  trampled ·  tramples
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English tramplen, frequentative of trampen, to tramp; see tramp.

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  1. from Middle English trampelen, tramplen =D. trampelen =Low German trampeln =Middle High German trampeln, German trampeln; a freq. of tramp.
  2. from trample, v.
 

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