trample

Noun · Verb

WordNet 3.0

the sound of heavy treading or stomping“he heard the trample of many feet”Synonyms: trampling

tread or stomp heavily or roughly“The soldiers trampled across the fields”Synonyms: tread
injure by trampling or as if by trampling“The passerby was trampled by an elephant”
walk on and flatten“tramp down the grass”“trample the flowers”Synonyms: tramp down tread down

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]

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]

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]