Trample

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æmpÉ™l

Origin

tramp + -le (frequentative).

Full definition of trample

Verb

1. (transitive) To crush something by walking on it.to trample grass or flowers
• Bible, Matthew vii. 6Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet.
• 1963, Margery Allingham, The China Governess Chapter Foreword, Everything a living animal could do to destroy and to desecrate bed and walls had been done. …  A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.
2. (by extension) To treat someone harshly.
3. (intransitive) To walk heavily and destructively.
• Charles Dickens... 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 ...
4. (by extension) To cause emotional injury as if by trampling.

Noun

1. the sound of heavy footsteps

Anagrams

• templar, Templar