Hypertext Webster Gateway: "trample"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
trample
n : the sound of heavy treading or stomping; "he heard the
trample of many feet" [syn: {trampling}]
v 1: tread or stomp heavily or roughly; "The soldiers trampled
across the fields" [syn: {tread}]
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}, {tread down}]
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