Trample

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: tram=ple

CIDE DICTIONARY

Trample, v. t. [OE. trampelen, freq. of trampen. See Tramp, v. t.].

•  To tread under foot; to tread down; to prostrate by treading; as, to trample grass or flowers.  Dryden.  [1913 Webster]

  "Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet."  [1913 Webster]
•  Fig.: To treat with contempt and insult.  Cowper.  [1913 Webster]

Trample, v. i. 

•  To tread with force and rapidity; to stamp.  [1913 Webster]
•  To tread in contempt; -- with on or upon.  [1913 Webster]

  "Diogenes trampled on Plato's pride with greater of his own."  [1913 Webster]

Trample, n. 

 The act of treading under foot; also, the sound produced by trampling.  Milton.  [1913 Webster]
"The huddling trample of a drove of sheep."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Trample, v. & n.
--v.tr.
1 tread under foot.
2 press down or crush in this way.
--n. the sound or act of trampling.

Idiom

trample on 1 tread heavily on.
2 treat roughly or with contempt; disregard (a person's feelings etc.).

Derivative

trampler n.

Etymology

ME f. TRAMP + -LE(4)

THESAURUS

Trample

break down, clop, clump, contemn, crush, damage, defy, destroy, disdain, disregard, drub, extinguish, flatten, harm, hit and run, hurt, ignore, inundate, overflow, override, overrun, pound, press, put out, ride down, ride over, ride roughshod over, run down, run over, scorn, set at naught, squash, squish, stamp, stamp on, stamp out, stomp, stunt, tramp, trample down, trample on, trample out, trample underfoot, trample upon, tread, tread upon, violate