trample
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
trample
n 1: the sound of heavy treading or stomping; "he heard the
trample of many feet" [syn: {trample}, {trampling}]
v 1: tread or stomp heavily or roughly; "The soldiers trampled
across the fields" [syn: {tread}, {trample}]
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" [syn: {tramp down}, {trample}, {tread down}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Trample \Tram"ple\, v. i.
1. To tread with force and rapidity; to stamp.
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2. To tread in contempt; -- with on or upon.
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Diogenes trampled on Plato's pride with greater of
his own. --Gov. of
Tongue.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they
trample them under their feet. --Matt. vii.
6.
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2. Fig.: To treat with contempt and insult. --Cowper.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
47 Moby Thesaurus words for "trample":
break down, clop, clump, contemn, crush, damage, defy, destroy,
disdain, disregard, drub, extinguish, flatten, harm, hit and run,
hurt, ignore, inundate, overflow, override, overrun, pound, press,
put out, ride down, ride over, ride roughshod over, run down,
run over, scorn, set at naught, squash, squish, stamp, stamp on,
stamp out, stomp, stunt, tramp, trample down, trample on,
trample out, trample underfoot, trample upon, tread, tread upon,
violate
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