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trample
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun trample has 1 sense
- trample(n = noun.event) trampling - the sound of heavy treading or stomping; "he heard the trample of many feet" is a kind of sound
Derived forms verb trample2, verb trample3, verb trample1
Verb trample has 3 senses
- trample(v = verb.motion) tread - tread or stomp heavily or roughly; "The soldiers trampled across the fields" is one way to walk
- trample(v = verb.body) Array - injure by trampling or as if by trampling; "The passerby was trampled by an elephant" is one way to injure, wound
- trample(v = verb.motion) tramp down, tread down - walk on and flatten; "tramp down the grass"; "trample the flowers" is one way to walk
Derived forms noun trample1, noun trampler2, noun trampling1
Sample sentence:
The children trample to the playground
Derived forms noun trample1, noun trampler1
Sample sentences:
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Derived forms noun trample1, noun trampler1
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
CIDE DICTIONARY
- To tread under foot; to tread down; to prostrate by treading; as, to trample grass or flowers. Dryden. [1913 Webster]"Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet." [1913 Webster]
- Fig.: To treat with contempt and insult. Cowper. [1913 Webster]
trample, v. i.
- To tread with force and rapidity; to stamp. [1913 Webster]
- To tread in contempt; -- with on or upon. [1913 Webster]"Diogenes trampled on Plato's pride with greater of his own." [1913 Webster]
trample, n.
The act of treading under foot; also, the sound produced by trampling. Milton. [1913 Webster]
"The huddling trample of a drove of sheep."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
trample, v. & n.
--v.tr.
1 tread under foot.
2 press down or crush in this way.
--n. the sound or act of trampling.
--v.tr.
1 tread under foot.
2 press down or crush in this way.
--n. the sound or act of trampling.
Idiom
trample on 1 tread heavily on.
2 treat roughly or with contempt; disregard (a person's feelings etc.).
2 treat roughly or with contempt; disregard (a person's feelings etc.).
Derivative
trampler n.
Etymology
ME f. TRAMP + -LE(4)
THESAURUS
trample
break down, clop, clump, contemn, crush, damage, defy, destroy, disdain, disregard, drub, extinguish, flatten, harm, hit and run, hurt, ignore, inundate, overflow, override, overrun, pound, press, put out, ride down, ride over, ride roughshod over, run down, run over, scorn, set at naught, squash, squish, stamp, stamp on, stamp out, stomp, stunt, tramp, trample down, trample on, trample out, trample underfoot, trample upon, tread, tread upon, violate
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