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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of trample.

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Examples

  • Although I wasn't going to post this, I put the video together anyway as a documentary of real-life fishing, which so often results in trampled hopes and destroyed expectations that were high in the first place because of shear stupidity.

    The Worst Fishing Video Ever 2009

  • Calling Boxer out to come out and meet the people whose rights she trampled is exactly the right thing to do and it’s reminescent of how citizens wanted their cowardly Democratic Congressmen to come and meet the people whose healthcare they were about to ruin.

    Carly Fiorina vs. the Sainted Delta Smelt. | RedState 2010

  • Annamaria Fiorillo said legality and justice had been "trampled" on.

    Silvio Berlusconi barracked as video shows women being ushered into house Tom Kington in Rome 2010

  • Shih accused the Beijing government of having "trampled" upon the rights of mainland Chinese with "jackboots" and expressed

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • Shih accused the Beijing government of having "trampled" upon the rights of mainland Chinese with "jackboots" and expressed

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • Shih accused the Beijing government of having "trampled" upon the rights of mainland Chinese with "jackboots" and expressed

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • I could see that the animal must have been crossing the path, because the print was sideways and the bushes alongside of the path were kind of trampled down.

    Roy Blakely, Pathfinder Percy Keese Fitzhugh 1913

  • Because some of their customs were most barbarous and inhuman, and such as trampled, not only upon the light and law of nature, but upon natural affection itself, as burning their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods (v. 31), the very mention of which is sufficient to make it odious, and possess us with a horror of it.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy) 1721

  • The Lib Dems would restore people's right to privacy which has been "trampled" on by the government, party leader Nick Clegg is to say.

    WN.com - Articles related to Cuts in meal programs deal blow to N.J. schools 2010

  • But the event quickly became overcrowded, putting fans in danger of being "trampled", district attorney Kathleen Rice said in a statement.

    Latest News - Yahoo!7 News 2010

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