Trample /(?)/

Tram·ple

Trample

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Trampled; p. pr. & vb. n. Trampling

  1. 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.
    — Matt. vii. 6.
  2. Fig.: To treat with contempt and insult.

Trample

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

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