trampling

English

Verb

trampling

1. present participle and gerund of trample

Noun

trampling (countable and uncountable, plural tramplings)

1. The act of trampling someone or something, an instance of trampling.
   • 1896, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc:

     The awfulest thing was the silence; there wasn't a sound but the screaking of the saddles, the measured tramplings, and the sneezing of the horses, afflicted by the smothering dust-clouds which they kicked up.

Synonyms

• calcation (rare)

Translations

the act of stamping, stomping or tramping on something

• Maori: takahanga