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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
trample
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
on
▪ It's getting there without trampling on too many people.
▪ Several people were trampled on and crushed.
▪ The canvas, which was trampled on and folded up despite its great size, vanished.
▪ She jumped to her feet, screaming in terror, certain that she was about to be trampled on.
▪ The complex understandings and practices that had shaped the relationship between central and local government had been trampled on.
over
▪ And behind him, yet another three, pouring through the gap, trampling over their fallen companions in their eagerness.
▪ L7 aren't half-arsed rockers, they trample over most of their rivals, they don't want to be blokes.
▪ There shouldn't have been a cattle herd of feet trampling over the grass.
▪ She would not let him trample over her!
▪ Occasionally, one would flick snow at the other - although by now the snow was well trampled over a wide area.
underfoot
▪ Their black gowns flowed to the floor where they were frequently trampled underfoot by passing waiters.
▪ The problem is not, as you might think, that the butterflies are being trampled underfoot.
▪ She felt certain that she must fall on her face and be trampled underfoot.
■ NOUN
death
▪ Rangers rarely respond to their outcry when a person is trampled to death by the same beasts.
▪ The man we trampled to death is again alive.
▪ In the same area, a farmer was trampled to death by his cattle, a vicar ran amok in his church.
▪ If grass had ever grown there, every blade had been trampled to death long ago.
▪ The calves must be roped and led out of the stockade first, lest the terrified adults trample them to death.
▪ I was terrified of being trampled to death.
▪ In a tournament at Paris in August 1186 Duke Geoffrey was trampled to death.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
trample sb/sth underfoot
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Kids chasing balls have trampled the flower beds.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But the imperial rescript tramples such considerations under foot.
▪ But they could, of course, take it to indicate that they can trample all over you.
▪ If grass had ever grown there, every blade had been trampled to death long ago.
▪ If he thought he could trample roughshod over her plans, just as he pleased, he had a lot to learn.
▪ Lopped off brambles lay around and the long grass was all trampled.
▪ Rock fall and trampling in the narrow confines of a cave are two major factors.
▪ Three hundred workpeople trampling about and regular cleaning means traces are going to be destroyed long ago, I would have thought.
▪ We should overlook the trampled grass in the square and the lowly origins of the glistening fountain.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.

    Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet.
    --Matt. vii. 6.

  2. Fig.: To treat with contempt and insult.
    --Cowper.

Trample

Trample \Tram"ple\, v. i.

  1. To tread with force and rapidity; to stamp.

  2. To tread in contempt; -- with on or upon.

    Diogenes trampled on Plato's pride with greater of his own.
    --Gov. of Tongue.

Trample

Trample \Tram"ple\, n. The act of treading under foot; also, the sound produced by trampling.
--Milton.

The huddling trample of a drove of sheep.
--Lowell.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
trample

late 14c., "to walk heavily," frequentative form of tramp (v.). Transitive sense "beat down by continuously treading on" is from mid-15c. Related: Trampled; trampling. As a noun from c.1600.

Wiktionary
trample

n. the sound of heavy footsteps vb. (context transitive English) To crush something by walking on it.

WordNet
trample

n. the sound of heavy treading or stomping; "he heard the trample of many feet" [syn: trampling]

trample

  1. v. 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]

Usage examples of "trample".

Every now and then a nervous artilleryman fired a shell from the Yankee lines, and the round would thump into the trampled corn and explode.

Blood spurted from the wounds, bedrabbling the trampled grasses with hot gore.

In this nadir of civilization, this wide- craving for the savage and the stark, this night of spirit, there rose to power the basest and hitherto t despised of human types, the hooligan and the gun-man, who recognized no values but personal dominance, whose vengeful aim was to trample the civilization that spurned them, and to rule for brigandage alone a new gangster society.

Caryll elected to flaunt them half-derisively, that Hortensia might trample them under foot in sheer disgust.

The world is overstocked with persons who sacrifice all their affections, and madly trample and batter down their fellows to obtain riches of which, when they get them, they are unable to make the smallest use, and to which they become the most miserable slaves.

Gordons trampled one last pistolero who had stayed to fight, and began lumbering down the stairs.

Fraisier had put forth all the strength of his rancorous nature, and the audacious portress lay trampled under his feet.

Moreover, he prayed them all to compose their differences and prepare for that awful struggle, lest in the end the Cross of their Master should be trampled under foot of the Saracen, His soldiers slain, His fanes desecrated, and His people slaughtered or driven into the sea-- words of warning that were received in heavy silence.

I seek, and that were I wise, I should trample on it, and take in its stead, that which is worth all the crowns of the east and presidentships of the west.

On sunny afternoons Corinna and Rhian worked in the gardens, replanting herbs and flowers where uncaring boots had trampled the young plants.

He tore away the ropes and the horses, frantic from the noise and smell of blood, stampeded into the sangar, knocking men down and trampling them.

Thanks to her trampling, the water was squeegeeing in and out of his flesh.

Muttering to herself, striding along as though she wanted to trample something, she adjusted and readjusted her shawl half a dozen times.

The people fled in all directions, trampling the fallen, grabbing children and lovers and stumbling on cobbles and broken flagstones.

His camp, occasionally removed from the banks of the Rhine to those of the Danube, was the seat of his stern despotism, which trampled on every principle of law and justice, and was supported by the avowed power of the sword.