trample

English

Etymology

From Middle English tramplen, trampelen (“to walk heavily”), equivalent to tramp +‎ -le. Cognate with Saterland Frisian trampelje (“to trample”), Dutch trampelen (“to trample”), German Low German trampeln (“to trample”), German trampeln (“to trample”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹæmpəl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -æmpəl

Verb

trample (third-person singular simple present tramples, present participle trampling, simple past and past participle trampled)

1. (transitive) To crush something by walking on it.

   to trample grass or flowers

   • c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:

     Our conquering ſwords ſhal marſhal vs the way
     UUe vſe to martch vpon the ſlaughtered foe:
     Trampling their bowels with our horſes hoofes: […]

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 7:6:

     neither caſt ye your pearles before ſwine: leſt they trample them vnder their feete, […]

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     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.

2. (by extension) To treat someone harshly.
3. (intransitive) To walk heavily and destructively.
   • June 9, 1960, Charles Dickens, All the Year Round

     […] horses proud of the crimson and yellow shaving-brushes on their heads, and of the sharp tingling bells upon their harness that chime far along the glaring white road along which they trample […]

4. (by extension) To cause emotional injury as if by trampling.
   • 1782, William Cowper, “Conversation”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC:

     to trample on our Maker's laws

Synonyms

• (crush or stomp underfoot): tread, calcate (obsolete)

Derived terms

• trample out

Translations

(transitive) to crush something by walking on it — see also stomp

• Albanian: shkel (sq)
• Arabic: دَعَسَ (daʕasa), وَطِئَ (waṭiʔa)
• Armenian: տրորել (hy) (trorel), կոխել (hy) (koxel)
• Azerbaijani: tapdalamaq (az)
• Bulgarian: стъпквам (bg) (stǎpkvam)
• Catalan: trepitjar (ca), calcigar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 踩 (caai²)

  Mandarin: 踐踏 / 践踏 (zh) (jiàntà), 跴 (zh) (cǎi), 踩 (zh) (cǎi), 蹈 (zh) (dǎo)

• Danish: trampe
• Egyptian: (ptpt)
• Finnish: talloa (fi), tallata (fi)
• French: fouler (fr), piétiner (fr)
• Galician: trepar
• Georgian: გადათელავს (gadatelavs)
• German: trampeln (de), zertrampeln (de), herumtrampeln
• Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐍄𐍂𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌽 (gatrudan)
• Greek:

  Ancient: καταπατέω (katapatéō)

• Ingrian: talloa
• Irish: dramhail
• Italian: calpestare (it), pestare (it)
• Japanese: 踏み荒らす (ふみあらす, fumiarasu), 踏みつける (ふみつける, fumitsukeru)
• Kabuverdianu: kalka
• Latin: calcō
• Lithuanian: trypti, sutrypti
• Manchu: ᡶᡝᡥᡠᠮᠪᡳ (fehumbi)
• Maori: hūkari, takahi, takatakahi
• Occitan: trepejar (oc), caupir, pompir (oc), sonsir (oc), penejar
• Ottoman Turkish: چیكنه‌مك (çiğnemek), طبانلامق (tabanlamak), آیاقلامق (ayaklamak)
• Polish: rozdeptywać
• Portuguese: pisotear (pt)
• Russian: топта́ть (ru) impf (toptátʹ), растопта́ть (ru) pf (rastoptátʹ)
• Spanish: pisotear (es), hollar (es), apisonar (es)
• Telugu: మట్టు (te) (maṭṭu)
• Welsh: sengi (cy), sangu (cy), sathru
• Yiddish: צעטרעטן (tsetretn)

to treat someone harshly

• Albanian: shkel (sq)
• German: herumtrampeln auf
• Italian: offendere (it), urtare (it), maltrattare (it)
• Quechua: t'ustuy
• Spanish: pisotear (es), maltratar (es), humillar (es)

(intransitive) to walk heavily and destructively

• Bulgarian: газя (bg) (gazja), стъпвам тежко (stǎpvam težko)
• Catalan: trepitjar (ca)
• Danish: trampe
• Galician: trepar
• German: trampeln (de)
• Italian: calpestare (it), pestare (it)
• Russian: то́пать (ru) (tópatʹ), топта́ть (ru) (toptátʹ)
• Spanish: pisotear (es), patullar (es), apisonar (es), zapatear (es)

(intransitive) to cause emotional injury as if by trampling

• Danish: trampe
• German: trampeln (de)
• Italian: offendere (it), violare (it)
• Spanish: ofender (es), humillar (es)

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Noun

trample (plural tramples)

1. A heavy stepping.
   • 2015, Lucy Corne, Josephine Quintero, Lonely Planet Canary Islands:

     Newly harvested grapes are poured into a vast vat for everyone to have a good trample upon […]

2. The sound of heavy footsteps.

Translations

the sound of heavy footsteps

• Bulgarian: трополене (bg) n (tropolene), тежки стъпки f pl (težki stǎpki)
• Danish: trampen c
• German: Trampeln n
• Italian: calpestio m
• Spanish: pisoteada (es) f, pisoteo (es) m

Anagrams

• Lampert, Templar, templar

German

Pronunciation

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Verb

trample

1. inflection of trampeln:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative
   3. first/third-person singular subjunctive I

Hunsrik

Etymology

From Middle High German *trampen, itself borrowed from Middle Low German trampen, from Old Saxon *trampan, from Proto-West Germanic *trampan (“to step”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtramplə/
• Rhymes: -amplə
• Syllabification: tram‧ple

Verb

trample

1. to tread
2. to trample

Conjugation

Regular

infinitive	trample
participle	getrampeld
auxiliary	hon
	present indicative	imperative
ich	trample	—
du	trampelst	trampel
er/sie/es	trampeld	—
meer	trample	—
deer	trampeld	trampeld
sie	trample	—

The present participle is uncommonly used,
but can be made with the suffix -end.

Further reading

• Boll, Piter Kehoma (2021), “trample”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch