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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.
The meaning of TRAMPLE is tramp; especially : to tread heavily so as to bruise, crush, or injure. How to use trample in a sentence.
trample. [transitive, intransitive] to step heavily on somebody/something so that you damage or harm them/it with your feet. trample somebody/something People were trampled underfoot in the rush for the exit. He was trampled to death by a runaway horse.
1. To beat down with the feet so as to crush, bruise, or destroy; tramp on. 2. To treat harshly or ruthlessly: would trample anyone who got in their way. v.intr. 1. To tread heavily or destructively: trampling on the flowers. 2. To inflict injury as if by treading heavily: "trampling on the feelings of those about you" (Thornton Wilder). n.
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 trample on someone's rights or values or to trample them means to deliberately ignore or destroy them.
TRAMPLE meaning: 1. to step heavily on something or someone, causing damage or injury: 2. to act without any…. Learn more.
1. To trample on someone's rights or values or to trample them means to deliberately ignore them. [...] 2. If someone is trampled, they are injured or killed by being stepped on by animals or by other people. [...] 3. If someone tramples something or tramples on it, they step heavily and carelessly on it and damage it. [...] More.
TRAMPLE meaning: 1 : to cause damage or pain by walking or stepping heavily on something or someone; 2 : to treat other people's rights, wishes, or feelings as if they are worthless or not important
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)
