[
UK
/tɹˈɑːmpəl/
]
[ US /ˈtɹæmpəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈtɹæmpəɫ/ ]
NOUN
-
the sound of heavy treading or stomping
he heard the trample of many feet
VERB
-
injure by trampling or as if by trampling
The passerby was trampled by an elephant -
tread or stomp heavily or roughly
The soldiers trampled across the fields -
walk on and flatten
trample the flowers
tramp down the grass
How To Use trample In A Sentence
- He was trampled to death by a runaway horse.
- I was kneeling on the floor beneath his feet and nearly got trampled to death in the scrum.
- The shelty came down over the rump of a red bullock, and Sim was sprawling on his face in the trampled grass. The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies
- Don't trample mud from your shoes on to the floor; I've just this minute swept it.
- To see their team go down without a fight, to see the good name of their club trampled underfoot, to see the game laughing at them. The Sun
- My idea of a desert is an eternal agony, plotted by the fury of the aridity, by the implacable confusion of a sun which, trampled by the wind, melts with the sand, until there is no other landscape than the sand dominating the sky, the ground, the wind. Flowers in the Desert
- Difficulties cannot be artificially overcome," said Mirabeau, "nor is there any invention whereby a man may be spared the trouble of conquering them; they must be grasped firmly, strangled, crushed, trampled down in manful fight. Zoe: The History of Two Lives
- The wounded were trampled and drowned in the shallow waves.
- I don't know what you're rambling on about, Flinx," she finally declared, "but either you ride the grizel or it tramples you. Orphan Star
- Don't trample on grass.
