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- Dictionarytrample/ˈtrampl/
verb
- 1. tread on and crush: "the fence had been trampled down" Similar
noun
- 1. an act or the sound of trampling: literary "destruction's trample treads them down"
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TRAMPLE definition: 1. to step heavily on something or someone, causing damage or injury: 2. to act without any…. Learn more.
[intransitive] trample (on/over) somebody/something to ignore somebody’s feelings or rights and treat them as if they are not important. The government is trampling on the views of ordinary people. She would not let him trample over her any longer.
TRAMPLE meaning: 1. to step heavily on something or someone, causing damage or injury: 2. to act without any…. Learn more.
The meaning of TRAMPLE is tramp; especially : to tread heavily so as to bruise, crush, or injure. How to use trample in a sentence.
To trample on someone's rights or values or to trample them means to deliberately ignore or destroy them. They say loggers are destroying rain forests and trampling on the rights of indigenous people.
to tread heavily, roughly, or crushingly (usually followed by on, upon, or over ): to trample on a flower bed. to act in a harsh, domineering, or cruel manner, as if treading roughly (usually followed by on, upon, or over ): to trample on another's feelings.
verb. /ˈtræmpl/ Verb Forms. [transitive, intransitive] to step heavily on someone or something so that you crush or harm them/it with your feet trample somebody/something People were trampled underfoot in the rush for the exit.
To trample is to forcefully walk right over something or someone. If you fall down during a footrace, another runner might trample you. When you trample, you're stomping or stamping: it's the opposite of walking on tippy toes.
to walk on something, usually damaging or hurting it: She shouted at the boys for trampling on her flowers. Two people were trampled to death in the panic. (Definition of trample from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
1. to stamp or walk roughly (on): to trample the flowers. 2. to encroach (upon) so as to violate or hurt: to trample on someone's feelings. n. the action or sound of trampling. [C14: frequentative of tramp; compare Middle High German trampeln] ˈtrampler n.
