trample
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English trample, from tramp + -le (frequentative).
Attested in the original sense 'walk heavily' since early 14th century.
PronunciationEdit
- 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
- 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[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.
- 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 […]
- Charles Dickens
- (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
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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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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 […]
- 2015, Lucy Corne, Josephine Quintero, Lonely Planet Canary Islands
- The sound of heavy footsteps.
TranslationsEdit
the sound of heavy footsteps
AnagramsEdit
GermanEdit
VerbEdit
trample
- First-person singular present of trampeln.
- Imperative singular of trampeln.
- First-person singular subjunctive I of trampeln.
- Third-person singular subjunctive I of trampeln.