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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the sound of heavy treading or stomping;
- Example: "he heard the trample of many feet"
[syn: trample, trampling]


VERB (3)

1. tread or stomp heavily or roughly;
- Example: "The soldiers trampled across the fields"
[syn: tread, trample]

2. injure by trampling or as if by trampling;
- Example: "The passerby was trampled by an elephant"

3. walk on and flatten;
- Example: "tramp down the grass"
- Example: "trample the flowers"
[syn: tramp down, trample, tread down]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Trample \Tram"ple\, n. The act of treading under foot; also, the sound produced by trampling. --Milton. [1913 Webster] The huddling trample of a drove of sheep. --Lowell. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Trample \Tram"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trampled; p. pr. & vb. n. Trampling.] [OE. trampelen, freq. of trampen. See Tramp, v. t.] 1. To tread under foot; to tread down; to prostrate by treading; as, to trample grass or flowers. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet. --Matt. vii. 6. [1913 Webster] 2. Fig.: To treat with contempt and insult. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Trample \Tram"ple\, v. i. 1. To tread with force and rapidity; to stamp. [1913 Webster] 2. To tread in contempt; -- with on or upon. [1913 Webster] Diogenes trampled on Plato's pride with greater of his own. --Gov. of Tongue. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

trample n 1: the sound of heavy treading or stomping; "he heard the trample of many feet" [syn: trample, trampling] v 1: tread or stomp heavily or roughly; "The soldiers trampled across the fields" [syn: tread, trample] 2: injure by trampling or as if by trampling; "The passerby was trampled by an elephant" 3: walk on and flatten; "tramp down the grass"; "trample the flowers" [syn: tramp down, trample, tread down]