Trample

Definition: Trample

Trample

Noun

1. The sound of heavy treading or stomping; "he heard the trample of many feet".

Verb

1. Tread or stomp heavily or roughly; "The soldiers trampled across the fields".

2. Injure by trampling or as if by trampling; "The passerby was trampled by an elephant".

3. Walk on and flatten; "tramp down the grass"; "trample the flowers".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "trample" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Trample \Tram"ple\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Trampled; Trampling.]. (references)

Synonyms: Trample

Contempt

Turn one's back upon, turn a cold shoulder upon; tread upon, trample upon, trample under foot; spurn, kick; fling to the winds; (repudiate); send away with a flea in the ear.

Depression

Overthrow, overturn, overset; upset, subvert, prostate, level, fell; cast down, take down, throw down, fling down, dash down, pull down, cut down, knock down, hew down; raze, raze to the ground, rase to the ground; trample in the dust, pull about one's ears.

Dereliction of Duty

Verb: violate; break, break through; infringe; set aside, set at naught; encroach upon, trench upon; trample on, trample under foot; slight, neglect, evade, renounce, forswear, repudiate; wash one's hands of; escape, transgress, fail.

Destruction

Deal destruction, desolate, devastate, lay waste, ravage gut; disorganize; dismantle; (render useless); devour, swallow up, sap, mine, blast, bomb, blow to smithereens, drop the big one, confound; exterminate, extinguish, quench, annihilate; snuff out, put out, stamp out, trample out; lay in the dust, trample in the dust; prostrate; tread under foot; crush under foot, trample under foot; lay the ax to the root of; make short work of, make clean sweep of, make mincemeat of; cut up root and branch, chop into pieces, cut into ribbons; fling to the winds, scatter to the winds; throw overboard; strike at the root of, sap the foundations of, spring a mine, blow up, ravage with fire and sword; cast to the dogs; eradicate.

Disrepute

Impute shame to, brand, post, stigmatize, vilify, defame, slur, cast a slur upon, hold up to shame, send to Coventry; tread under foot, trample under foot; show up, drag through the mire, heap dirt upon; reprehend.

Inexpedience

Wrong, aggrieve, oppress, persecute; trample upon, tread upon, bear hard upon, put upon; overburden; weigh down, weigh heavy on; victimize; run down; molest.

Insolence

Domineer, bully, dictate, hector; lord it over; traiter de haut en bas, regarder de haut en bas; exact; snub, huff., beard, fly in the face of; put to the blush; bear down, beat down; browbeat, intimidate; trample down, tread down, trample under foot; dragoon, ride roughshod over.

Nonobservance

Infringe, transgress, violate, pirate, break, trample under foot, do violence to, drive a coach and six through.

Severity

Assume, usurp, arrogate, take liberties; domineer, bully; tyrannize, inflict, wreak, stretch a point, put on the screw; be hard upon; bear a heavy hand on, lay a heavy hand on; be down upon, come down upon; ill treat; deal hardly with, deal hard measure to; rule with a rod of iron, chastise with scorpions; dye with blood; oppress, override; trample under foot; tread under foot, tread upon, trample upon, tread down upon, trample down upon; crush under an iron heel, ride roughshod over; rivet the yoke; hold a tight hand, keep a tight hand; force down the throat; coerce; give no quarter; (pitiless) a.

Success

Settle, do for; break the neck of, break the back of; capsize, sink, shipwreck, drown, swamp; subdue; subjugate; (subject); reduce; make the enemy bite the dust; victimize, roll in the dust, trample under foot, put an extinguisher upon.

Crosswords: Trample

And it is a thousand candles that will burn for every brave soldier that marches to the steps of the drums of liberty, so that tyranny will never trample the spirit of freedom in the hearts of men, throughout a world thrown into darkness and despair (The Cheap Detective; writing credit: Neil Simon)

And come and trample me. (The Masochism Tango; performing artist: Tom Lehrer)

To trample down my enemies (LADY IN BLACK; performing artist: Uriah Heep)

Last Trample In Paris (1999)

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Books

• The Way Demon Angels Trick, Trap, & Trample (reference)

• Trample an Empire Down (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "trample": trample about ♦ trample down ♦ trample down smb.'s feelings ♦ trample in the dust ♦ trample on ♦ trample on smb. ♦ trample on smth. ♦ trample out ♦ trample smth. underfoot ♦ trample under foot ♦ trample underfoot. Additional references.

Albanian

shtyp (bruise, clench, compact, crush, Dent, depress, die, grind, newspapers, oppress, organ, override, pestle, pound, press, print, push down, quash, quell, repress, run down, run over, scotch, squash, squeeze, stamp, step, strike off, suppress, swat, trample down, triturate, type, tyrannize), shkoj me hap të rëndë, shkel (backslide, break, contravene, disobey, encroach, entrench, evade, go back, impinge, infringe, make inroads into, muscle in, obtrude, offend, outrage, outrun, override, perambulate, poach, press, pull, step, trample down, trample on, transgress, tread, tread on, trouble), marr nëpër këmbë (override, trample down). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مرغ, ‏وطء, ‏تصرف بقسوة, ‏سحق (bash, batter, beat, beating, bow, break, crack, crumple, crunch, crush, flatten, grind, jam, levigate, mow, overwhelm, pound, pounding, powder, pulverization, pulverize, put down, quash, reduce, run over smth., scotch, slam, smash, squash, squeeze, squelch, steam roller, suppress, sweep, tread, triturate, trituration), ‏داس (run down, run over, tread). (various references)

Bulgarian 

стъпвам тежко (stodge, stump along, tramp, trudge), смачквам с крака, тъпчене (shifting, stuffing), тропот (clatter, rattle, rumble, stamp), шум от тежки стъпки (tramp), газя (flounder, jaw, paddle, puddle, tick off, wade), газене (flounder), отнасям се с презрение към (spurn), погазване (trampling, violation), погазвам (dishonor, dishonour, override, trample on, trangress, violate). (various references)

Chinese 

蹶 (stumble, to kick), 蹂 , 蹈 (fulfill, stamp, tread on), 践踏 (Tramped, tramping, trampled, trampling, Treading, Trod, trodden), 踐踏 , 踹 (kick), 禸 . (various references)

Czech

pošlapat (trample down), dupot (tramp), dupat (stamp, stomp, thump, tramp), cupot (trip), šlapat po, šlápoty. (various references)

Danish

sammentrykke naturgoedning (to trample manure), sammentraede naturgoedning (to trample manure), at stampe gødning sammen (to trample manure). (various references)

Dutch

trappen op (trample on, tread), stalmest vaststampen (to trample manure), mest aantrappen (to trample manure), aanstampen (step on, trample on, tread). (various references)

Esperanto

treti (trample on, tread). (various references)

Faeroese

stíga (trample on, tread). (various references)

Farsi 

پایمال کردن (Inculcate, Override, Overwhelm, Suppress), پامال کردن , لگد (Hurl, Kick, Yerk), زیرپالگدماک ل کردن . (various references)

Finnish

tallata (trample on, tread, tread down), polkea (pedal, trample on, tread down, tread stamp). (various references)

French

fouler aux pieds (trample on, tread), bafouer. (various references)

German

trampeln (clump, kick, lumber, stamp, tramp). (various references)

Greek 

τσαλαπατώ (tread). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"ש�"ש (tread, trudge), לבוסס (tread upon), לבעוט (boot, despise, kick), לבטוש (beat, grind, kick, stamp, tread), לרמוס (stamp, tread). (various references)

Hungarian

eltapos (overran, overrun, to overrun, to squelch, to tread on, tread), elnyom (ground, oppress, overwhelm, quell, quench, repress, ride, throttle, to bully, to coerce, to drown out, to grain down, to grain sg under one's heel, to grind, to hold down, to inhibit, to keep down, to keep under, to mask, to overwhelm, to put down, to quash, to repress, to stifle, to suppress, to tread down, to victimize). (various references)

Indonesian

menginjak (trample down, tread, tread (crush) under foot). (various references)

Italian

camminare su, calpestare (override, stomp, trample on, tread, tread on, tread upon). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

踏み躙る (to crush with a foot, to trample underfoot, to tread on), 踏み�'す (to trample), 踏み�'らす (to devastate, to trample down), 踏み絵 , 踏み潰す (to crush underfoot, to trample), 踏み拉く (to crush underfoot, to trample), 踏み�'す (to bilk, to shirk payment, to trample down), 踏み均す (to beat a path, to trample flat), 踏みつける (to ignore, to trample down, to tread on), 踏み付ける (to ignore, to trample down, to tread on). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ふみたおす (to bilk, to shirk payment, to trample down), ふみならす (to beat a path, to stamp one's feet, to trample flat), ふみし� く (to crush underfoot, to trample), ふみつぶす (to crush underfoot, to trample), ふみつける (to ignore, to trample down, to tread on), ふみにじる (to crush with a foot, to trample underfoot, to tread on), ふみあらす (to devastate, to trample, to trample down), ふみえ. (various references)

Korean 

�"밟으십시�". (various references)

Manx

sthampey (clump, stomp, swage, tread, tread on). (various references)

Pig Latin

ampletray.(various references)

Portuguese

pisar (bruise, chunk, contuse, crush, meal, override, pound, ram, step, step on, tamp, trample on, tread), esmagar com os pés, calcar (crush, pound, press, pump, ram, repress, trample on, tread, tread on), andar pesadamente (clump). (various references)

Romanian

zdupãi, merge cu paşi greoi, dispreţui (brave, contemn, despise, disdain, dispraise, hold cheap, hold smb. in contempt, look down on, pooh pooh, scorn, set at naught, slight, spurn, turn up one's nose at, undervalue). (various references)

Russian 

топтать (set foot, stamp, tread). (various references)

Scottish

saltair (tread). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zgaziti, izgaziti. (various references)

Spanish

pisotear (poach, tread, tread down). (various references)

Swedish

trampa ner. (various references)

Turkish

ezmek (Bray, comminute, crunch, crush, domineer, grind, hold down, knock over, mangle, mash, oppress, overbear, overwhelm, pound, pulverize, quash, run down, run over, scrunch, smash, squash, squeeze, squelch, squish, stamp, stave in, steamroller, stump, swat, trample down, tread, tread under foot, tyrannize, weigh down), ezme sesi, ayaklar altına almak, çiğnemek (break, champ, chew, chump, contravene, crunch, infringe, masticate, outrage, override, run down, run over, squelch, stamp, swamp, tramp, trample down, transgress, violate), çiğneme (breach, chew, chewing, contravention, infraction, mastication, masticatory, nonobservance, non-observance, run over, tread under foot). (various references)

Turkmen 

tarp (virgin soil), paяdyrmak, depgilemek, depelemek, basgalamak. (various references)

Ukrainian

тупання, топтати (override, tread down), топтання, зневажання (abasement, forgetfulness, neglect, violation). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự gi� y xéo, sự ch� đạp. (various references)

Welsh

sathru (tread), sarnu (litter), sangu (tread), mathru (tread), damsang (tread). (various references)

protero. (various references)

fouler, gaucher. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "trample": trampled, trampler, tramplers, tramples. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Trample" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Krempel, Trameleuc, trampe, trampen, trampey, Trankle, Trapley. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: templar.

-1 letter: ampler, armlet, palmer, palter, plater, tamper, tramel.

-2 letters: alert, alter, ample, apter, armet, artel, lamer, later, leapt, lepta, maple, mater, metal, paler, palet, parle, pater, pearl, peart, petal, plate, pleat, prate, ramet, ratel, realm, remap, taler, tamer, taper, tepal, tramp.

-3 letters: alme, aper, earl, lame, lamp, late, leap, lear, lept, male, malt, mare.

+1 letter: malapert, templars, temporal, trampled, trampler, tramples.

+2 letters: atemporal, implanter, malaperts, patrolmen, reimplant, temporals, tramplers.

+3 letters: campestral, extemporal, impartible, implanters, importable, malapertly, metacarpal, parimutuel, parliament, permutable, petrolatum, planimeter, platemaker, premarital, promotable, promulgate, protonemal, psalterium, reimplants, slipstream, spermatial, streetlamp, temperable, temporally, trampoline, treponemal.

+4 letters: apartmental, exemplarity, hypothermal, imperialist, lamplighter, lepromatous, malpractice, marketplace, metacarpals, multiplayer, nontemporal, palmistries, pamphleteer, parliaments, patelliform, paternalism, perambulate, peristomial, permanently, petrolatums, planetarium, planimeters, planimetric, platemakers, polarimeter, polarimetry, prematurely, preterminal, primalities, problematic, promulgated, promulgates, proximately, reimplanted, replacement, sempiternal, slipstreams, streetlamps, temperately, temporality, temporalize, temporarily, timepleaser, trampoliner, trampolines, ultrasimple.