Found 2 items, similar to Trample.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: trample
trample
n : the sound of heavy treading or stomping;
“he heard the
trample of many feet” [syn:
trampling]
trample
v 1: tread or stomp heavily or roughly;
“The soldiers trampled
across the fields” [syn:
tread]
2: injure by trampling or as if by trampling;
“The passerby was
trampled by an elephant”
3: walk on and flatten;
“tramp down the grass”;
“trample the
flowers” [syn:
tramp down,
tread down]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Trample
Trample
\Tram"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Trampled; p. pr. & vb.
n.
Trampling.] [OE. trampelen, freq. of trampen. See
Tramp, v. t.]
1. To tread under foot; to tread down; to prostrate by
treading; as, to trample grass or flowers. --Dryden.
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Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they
trample them under their feet. --Matt. vii.
6.
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2. Fig.: To treat with contempt and insult. --Cowper.
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Trample
\Tram"ple\, v. i.
1. To tread with force and rapidity; to stamp.
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2. To tread in contempt; -- with on or upon.
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Diogenes trampled on Plato's pride with greater of
his own. --Gov. of
Tongue.
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Trample
\Tram"ple\, n.
The act of treading under foot; also, the sound produced by
trampling. --Milton.
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The huddling trample of a drove of sheep. --Lowell.
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