trample Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the sound of heavy treading or stomping
    trampling.
    • he heard the trample of many feet
  2. verb tread or stomp heavily or roughly
    tread.
    • The soldiers trampled across the fields
  3. verb injure by trampling or as if by trampling
    • The passerby was trampled by an elephant
  4. verb walk on and flatten
    tramp down; tread down.
    • tramp down the grass
    • trample the flowers

WordNet

Tram"ple transitive verb
Etymology
OE. trampelen, freq. of trampen. See Tramp, v. t.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Trampled ; present participle & verbal noun Trampling
Definitions
  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 intransitive verb
Definitions
  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 noun
Definitions
  1. The act of treading under foot; also, the sound produced by trampling. Milton.
    The huddling trample of a drove of sheep. Lowell.

Webster 1913