trample
IPA: trˈæmpʌɫ
noun
- A heavy stepping.
- The sound of heavy footsteps.
verb
- (transitive) To crush something by walking on it.
- (by extension) To treat someone harshly.
- (intransitive) To walk heavily and destructively.
- (by extension) To cause emotional injury as if by trampling.
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Examples of "trample" in Sentences
- He has trampled out the vintage.
- Trample the weak and hurdle the dead.
- House Republicans trample their leader.
- Most the dead and injured were trampled.
- I think the cattle would trample the badger.
- The floor of the anteroom was of densely trampled mud.
- Immigration enforcement shouldn't trample personal rights.
- You are using that majority to trample on the will of the minority.
- It means to trample with the feet, or the act of trampling or treading.
- CAW president Ken Lewenza said such a provision would "trample" workers 'rights.
- Meadowbrook Middle School principal Cherie Washington says her team is going to "trample" Handley Middle School.
- But the technology may 'trample' civil liberties and privacy rights, warns Graeme Norton of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.
- At the same time, Makhmalbaf warned that the West should not "trample" on the Green Movement by fully embracing Iran's regime if it eventually reverses course on nuclear talks.
- Elaborate security arrangements are being made in view of the two-day 'shutdown' called by banned CPI (Maoist) in Bihar from October 12 against Centre's move to "trample" its agitation with application of
- They collect crowds to fill theatres, and there they introduce choirs of harlots and prostituted children, yea such as trample on nature herself; and they make the whole people sit on high, and so they captivate their city; so they crown these mighty kings whom they are perpetually admiring for their trophies and victories.
- Lisa Madigan, who is the political combine's best hope in 2010 to keep the cycle of old-style politics going, takes money from lobbyists and cronies as she works as the state's chief legal officer and says the reason she has knowingly ignored the violation of state laws by her fellow politicians is because she might "trample" on what the Feds "might do someday."