trample

Plural: tramples

Noun

• the sound of heavy treading or stomping
  • "he heard the trample of many feet"
• A heavy stepping.
• The sound of heavy footsteps.

Verb

Verb Forms: trampled, trampling, tramples

• To tread on heavily, often causing damage or injury.
• tread or stomp heavily or roughly
  • "The soldiers trampled across the fields"
• injure by trampling or as if by trampling
  • "The passerby was trampled by an elephant"
• walk on and flatten
  • "trample the flowers"
• To crush something by walking on it.
• To treat someone harshly.
• To walk heavily and destructively.
• To cause emotional injury as if by trampling.

Examples

• He couldn’t help but TRAMPLE over his opponent’s last play with a bonus word.
• to trample grass or flowers

Synonyms

tramp down, trampling, tread, tread down, calcate

Anagrams of trample