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- Dictionarytrample/ˈtrampl/
verb
- 1. tread on and crush: "the fence had been trampled down" Similar
noun
- 1. an act or the sound of trampling: literary "destruction's trample treads them down"
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TRAMPLE definition: 1. to step heavily on something or someone, causing damage or injury: 2. to act without any…. Learn more.
The meaning of TRAMPLE is tramp; especially : to tread heavily so as to bruise, crush, or injure. How to use trample in a sentence.
TRAMPLE meaning: 1. to step heavily on something or someone, causing damage or injury: 2. to act without any…. Learn more.
to tread heavily, roughly, or crushingly (usually followed by on, upon, or over ): to trample on a flower bed. to act in a harsh, domineering, or cruel manner, as if treading roughly (usually followed by on, upon, or over ): to trample on another's feelings.
1. To tread heavily or destructively: trampling on the flowers. 2. To inflict injury as if by treading heavily: "trampling on the feelings of those about you" (Thornton Wilder). n. The action or sound of trampling. [Middle English tramplen, frequentative of trampen, to tramp; see tramp .] tram′pler n.
To trample on someone's rights or values or to trample them means to deliberately ignore or destroy them. They say loggers are destroying rain forests and trampling on the rights of indigenous people.
[intransitive] trample (on/over) somebody/something to ignore somebody’s feelings or rights and treat them as if they are not important. The government is trampling on the views of ordinary people. She would not let him trample over her any longer.
