trample

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the sound of heavy treading or stomping

   They heard the trample of many feet.

2. 2
   verb

   injure by trampling or as if by trampling

   The passerby was trampled by an elephant

3. 3
   verb

   tread or stomp heavily or roughly

   The soldiers trampled across the fields

4. 4
   verb

   To crush something by walking on it.

   to trample grass or flowers

5. 5
   verb

   To walk heavily and destructively.

   June 9, 1960, Charles Dickens, All the Year Round […] 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 […]

6. 6
   verb

   To cause emotional injury as if by trampling.

   to trample on our Maker's laws

7. 7
   noun

   A heavy stepping.

   Newly harvested grapes are poured into a vast vat for everyone to have a good trample upon […]

8. 8
   verb

   walk on and flatten

Etymology

From Middle English tramplen, trampelen (“to walk heavily”), equivalent to tramp + -le. Cognate with Saterland Frisian trampelje (“to trample”), Dutch trampelen (“to trample”), German Low German trampeln (“to trample”), German trampeln (“to trample”).