Definitions for: Trample


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



Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they
trample them under their feet. --Matt. vii.
6.

2. Fig.: To treat with contempt and insult. --Cowper.


Tram"ple, v. i.
1. To tread with force and rapidity; to stamp.

2. To tread in contempt; -- with on or upon.

Diogenes trampled on Plato's pride with greater of
his own. --Gov. of
Tongue.


Tram"ple, n.
The act of treading under foot; also, the sound produced by
trampling. --Milton.

The huddling trample of a drove of sheep. --Lowell.

Synonyms: tramp down, trampling, tread, tread down

See Also: injure, sound, treadle, walk, wound

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