TRAMPLE

v. n.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

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.
v.

Fig.: To treat with contempt and insult. Cowper.

3.
v.

To tread with force and rapidity; to stamp.

4.
v.

To tread in contempt; -- with on or upon. Diogenes trampled on Plato's pride with greater of his own. Gov. of Tongue.

5.
n.

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

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