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verb

Trample v. t. (past & past part. trampled; pres. part. trampling)

To tread under foot; to tread down; to prostrate by treading; as, to trample grass or flowers. "Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet."

Fig.: To treat with contempt and insult.

Trample v. i.

To tread with force and rapidity; to stamp.

To tread in contempt; with on or upon. "Diogenes trampled on Plato's pride with greater of his own."

noun

Trample n. The act of treading under foot; also, the sound produced by trampling. "The huddling trample of a drove of sheep."

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Etymology of 'Trample'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Trample" Quotes from Famous Books

... can consider worthy of exertion. I say that Maddalo is proud, because I can find no other word to express the concentred and impatient feelings which consume him; but it is on his own hopes and affections only that he seems to trample, for in social life no human being can be more gentle, patient, and unassuming than Maddalo. He is cheerful, frank, and witty. His more serious conversation is a sort of intoxication. He has travelled much; and there is an inexpressible charm ...

— Life of Lord Byron, Vol. IV - With His Letters and Journals • Thomas Moore

... shall never talk so before me. You would have that little nigger trample on Mary, would you? She came home with a lie; it ...

— Our Nig • Harriet E. Wilson

... 28, in which dominion over all living creatures is granted to man. The two words which are used in ver. 21 are [Hebrew script] from [Hebrew script], to stretch out, to extend, and [Hebrew script], from [Hebrew script], identical with [Hebrew script], to trample with the feet. The description then points us to animals of great size, especially length, which trample with the feet. "Great sea- monsters," Gesenius calls them. These words clearly indicate the Saurian and allied tribes of reptiles; and when ...

— The Story of Creation as told by Theology and by Science • T. S. Ackland

... running away?" Samuel Quirk asked indignantly, "with me to help you fight the blackguards? You, an Irishman, whose fathers have battled for independence in the dark days as in the fine ones? No, Denis you will remain here and trample 'The Observer' under ...

— Grey Town - An Australian Story • Gerald Baldwin

... off the juicy buds. Whenever a snowstorm overtakes him, the herdsman drives the goats into a glen, and lest the snow should bury them all by the morning while they sleep, he drives them continually up and down, thus making them trample down the falling flakes. Meanwhile Mariora sits at home and spins the wool from which she makes her own and her husband's clothes, or she pounds maize into meal in a stone mortar for household needs, playing ...

— The Poor Plutocrats • Maurus Jokai

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