4 definitions found
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 1.6 [wn]:
trample
n : the sound of trampling [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"
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