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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TRAM'PLE, v.t.
1. To tread under foot; especially, to tread upon with pride, contempt, triumph or scorn.
Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet. Matthew 7.
2. To tread down; to prostrate by treading; as, to trample grass.
3. To treat with pride, contempt and insult.
TRAM'PLE, v.i. To tread in contempt.
Diogenes trampled on Plato's pride with greater of his own.
1. To tread with force and rapidity.
TRAM'PLE, n. The act of treading under foot with contempt.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the sound of heavy treading or stomping; "he heard the trample of many feet" [syn: trample, trampling] v
1: tread or stomp heavily or roughly; "The soldiers trampled across the fields" [syn: tread, trample]
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, trample, tread down]

Merriam Webster's

verb (trampled; trampling) Etymology: Middle English, frequentative of trampen to tramp Date: 14th century intransitive verb 1. tramp; especially to tread heavily so as to bruise, crush, or injure 2. to inflict injury or destruction especially contemptuously or ruthlessly — usually used with on, over, or upon <trampling on the rights of others> transitive verb to crush, injure, or destroy by or as if by treading <trampled the flowers> • trample noun • trampler noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. --v.tr. 1 tread under foot. 2 press down or crush in this way. --n. the sound or act of trampling. Phrases and idioms: trample on 1 tread heavily on. 2 treat roughly or with contempt; disregard (a person's feelings etc.). Derivatives: trampler n. Etymology: ME f. TRAMP + -LE(4)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(tramples, trampling, trampled) 1. To trample on someone's rights or values or to trample them means to deliberately ignore them. They say loggers are destroying rain forests and trampling on the rights of natives... Diplomats denounced the leaders for trampling their citizens' civil rights... VERB: V on n, V n 2. If someone is trampled, they are injured or killed by being stepped on by animals or by other people. Many people were trampled in the panic that followed... VERB: usu passive, be V-ed 3. If someone tramples something or tramples on it, they step heavily and carelessly on it and damage it. They don't want people trampling the grass, pitching tents or building fires... Please don't trample on the azaleas... VERB: V n, V on n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. 1. Tread upon, tread under foot, trample on, crush. 2. Tread down, prostrate by treading. 3. Treat with scorn, spurn.

Moby Thesaurus

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