trample
verb
- damage by walking on
noun
No English definition recorded for this entry.
L329516 on Wikidata ↗Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈtɹæmpəl/
noun
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”).
- A heavy stepping.
“Newly harvested grapes are poured into a vast vat for everyone to have a good trample upon […]”
- The sound of heavy footsteps.
verb
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”).
- To crush something by walking on it.
“to trample grass or flowers”
“Our conquering ſwords ſhal marſhal vs the way UUe vſe to martch vpon the ſlaughtered foe: Trampling their bowels with our horſes hoofes: […]”
- To treat someone harshly.
- To walk heavily and destructively.
“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 […]”
- To cause emotional injury as if by trampling.
“to trample on our Maker's laws”