trample
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English trample, from tramp + -le (frequentative).
Attested in the original sense 'walk heavily' since early 14th century.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
trample (third-person singular simple present tramples, present participle trampling, simple past and past participle trampled)
- (transitive) To crush something by walking on it.
- to trample grass or flowers
- c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:
- Our conquering ſwords ſhal marſhal vs the way
UUe vſe to martch vpon the ſlaughtered foe:
Trampling their bowels with our horſes hoofes: […]
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 7:6:
- neither caſt ye your pearles before ſwine: leſt they trample them vnder their feete, […]
- 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
- 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.
- (by extension) To treat someone harshly.
- (intransitive) To walk heavily and destructively.
- 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 […]
- June 9, 1960, Charles Dickens, All the Year Round
- (by extension) To cause emotional injury as if by trampling.
- 1782, William Cowper, “Conversation”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC:
- to trample on our Maker's laws
Synonyms edit
- (crush or stomp underfoot): calcate (obsolete)
Translations edit
(transitive) to crush something by walking on it
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to treat someone harshly
(intransitive) to walk heavily and destructively
(intransitive) to cause emotional injury as if by trampling
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Noun edit
trample (plural tramples)
- A heavy stepping.
- 2015, Lucy Corne, Josephine Quintero, Lonely Planet Canary Islands:
- Newly harvested grapes are poured into a vast vat for everyone to have a good trample upon […]
- The sound of heavy footsteps.
Translations edit
the sound of heavy footsteps
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Verb edit
trample
- inflection of trampeln:
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Etymology edit
From Middle High German *trampen, itself borrowed from Middle Low German trampen, from Old Saxon *trampan, from Proto-West Germanic *trampan (“to step”).
Pronunciation edit
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trample
Conjugation edit
| Regular | ||
|---|---|---|
| infinitive | trample | |
| participle | getrampeld | |
| auxiliary | hon | |
| present indicative |
imperative | |
| ich | trample | — |
| du | trampelst | trampel |
| er/sie/es | trampeld | — |
| meer | trample | — |
| deer | trampeld | trampeld |
| sie | trample | — |
| The use of the present participle is uncommon, but can be made with the suffix -end. | ||