Pronunciations (2)
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/ˈtɹæmpəl/
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ˈtɹæmpəl
Verb
To crush something by walking on it.
Usage- Transitive
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to trample grass or flowers
Our conquering ſwords ſhal marſhal vs the way UUe vſe to martch vpon the ſlaughtered foe: Trampling their bowels with our horſes hoofes: […]
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neither caſt ye your pearles before ſwine: leſt they trample them vnder their feete, […]
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.
To treat someone harshly.
Usage- broadly
To walk heavily and destructively.
Usage- Intransitive
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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 […]
To cause emotional injury as if by trampling.
Usage- broadly
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to trample on our Maker's laws
Noun
A heavy stepping.
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Newly harvested grapes are poured into a vast vat for everyone to have a good trample upon […]
The sound of heavy footsteps.
Noun
the sound of heavy treading or stomping
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he heard the trample of many feet
Verb
tread or stomp heavily or roughly
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The soldiers trampled across the fields
injure by trampling or as if by trampling
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The passerby was trampled by an elephant
walk on and flatten
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tramp down the grass
trample the flowers