trample

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To step on something heavily and crush or damage it with your feet.

   The crowd trampled the flowers as they rushed to the stage.

2. 2
   verb

   To treat someone's feelings, rights, or wishes with no respect.

   The new law tramples on the rights of ordinary citizens.

3. 3
   noun

   The sound or act of heavy stepping by many feet.

   They heard the trample of many feet in the hallway.

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”).

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