English

Verb

trample ‎(third-person singular simple present tramples, present participle trampling, simple past and past participle trampled)

1. (transitive) To crush something by walking on it.

   to trample grass or flowers

   • Bible, Matthew vii. 6

     Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess:

     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.

2. (by extension) To treat someone harshly.
3. (intransitive) To walk heavily and destructively.
   • Charles Dickens

     […] 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 […]

4. (by extension) To cause emotional injury as if by trampling.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Cowper to this entry?)

Translations

Noun

trample ‎(plural tramples)

1. the sound of heavy footsteps

Translations

Anagrams

• templar, Templar

German

Verb

trample

1. First-person singular present of trampeln.
2. Imperative singular of trampeln.
3. First-person singular subjunctive I of trampeln.
4. Third-person singular subjunctive I of trampeln.