trample : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: trample	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for trample
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
trample n the sound of heavy treading or stomping; "he heard the trample of many feet" Synonym(s): trample, trampling v tread or stomp heavily or roughly; "The soldiers trampled across the fields" Synonym(s): tread, trample injure by trampling or as if by trampling; "The passerby was trampled by an elephant" walk on and flatten; "tramp down the grass"; "trample the flowers" Synonym(s): tramp down, trample, tread down
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Trample \Tram"ple\, n. The act of treading under foot; also, the sound produced by trampling. --Milton. The huddling trample of a drove of sheep. --Lowell.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Trample \Tram"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Trampled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Trampling}.] [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.