trample

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle English trample, from tramp +‎ -le (frequentative).

Attested in the original sense 'walk heavily' since early 14th century.

PronunciationEdit

IPA^(key): /ˈtɹæmpəl/
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Rhymes: -æmpəl

VerbEdit

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
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Matthew 7:6:
  
  Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess‎^[1]:
  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 […]
(by extension) To cause emotional injury as if by trampling.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Cowper to this entry?)

TranslationsEdit

(transitive) to crush something by walking on it

Armenian: տրորել (hy) (trorel), կոխել (hy) (koxel)
Azerbaijani: tapdalamaq (az)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 踩 (caai²)

Mandarin: 踐踏 (zh), 践踏 (zh) (jiàntà), 跴 (zh), 踩 (zh) (cǎi), 蹈 (zh) (dǎo)
Danish: trampe
Egyptian:

(ptpt)
Finnish: talloa (fi), tallata (fi)
French: piétiner (fr)
Galician: trepar
German: trampeln (de), zertrampeln (de), herumtrampeln
Greek:
Ancient: καταπατέω (katapatéō)

Italian: calpestare (it), pestare (it)
Japanese: 踏み荒らす (ふみあらす, fumiarasu), 踏みつける (ふみつける, fumitsukeru)
Kabuverdianu: kalka
Latin: calcō
Maori: hūkari, takahi, takatakahi
Polish: rozdeptywać
Portuguese: pisotear (pt)
Russian: топта́ть (ru) impf (toptátʹ), растопта́ть (ru) pf (rastoptátʹ)
Spanish: pisotear (es), hollar (es)
Telugu: మట్టు (te) (maṭṭu)
Yiddish: צעטרעטן‎ (tsetretn)

to treat someone harshly

German: herumtrampeln auf
Italian: offendere (it), urtare (it), maltrattare (it)

Quechua: t'ustuy
Spanish: pisotear (es), maltratar (es), humillar (es)

(intransitive) to walk heavily and destructively

Danish: trampe
Galician: trepar
German: trampeln (de)
Italian: calpestare (it), pestare (it)

Russian: то́пать (ru) (tópatʹ), топта́ть (ru) (toptátʹ)
Spanish: pisotear (es)

(intransitive) to cause emotional injury as if by trampling

Danish: trampe
German: trampeln (de)
Italian: offendere (it), violare (it)

Spanish: ofender (es), humillar (es)

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NounEdit

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.