Category:Trample

Tram"ple, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trampled; p. pr. & vb. n. Trampling.] Etym: [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.

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.

Trample Tram"ple, n.

Defn: the act of treading under foot; also, the sound produced by Trampling. Milton. The huddling trample of a drove of sheep. Lowell.