trample
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- Rhymes: -æmpəl
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trample (third-person singular simple present tramples, present participle trampling, simple past and past participle trampled)
- (transitive) To crush something by walking on it.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess[1]:
- Everything a living animal could do to destroy and to desecrate bed and walls had been done. […] A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess[1]:
- (by extension) To treat someone harshly.
- (intransitive) To walk heavily and destructively.
- (by extension) To cause emotional injury as if by trampling.
Translations[edit]
(transitive) to crush something by walking on it
to treat someone harshly
(intransitive) to walk heavily and destructively
(intransitive) to cause emotional injury as if by trampling
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- Spanish: pisotear
Noun[edit]
trample (plural tramples)
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trample
