Trample
['træmp(ə)l] or ['træmpl]
Definition
(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'.
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Definition
(v. t.) To tread under foot; to tread down; to prostrate by treading; as, to trample grass or flowers.
(v. t.) Fig.: To treat with contempt and insult.
(v. i.) To tread with force and rapidity; to stamp.
(v. i.) To tread in contempt; -- with on or upon.
(n.) The act of treading under foot; also, the sound produced by trampling.
Checker: Sondra
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Tread upon, tread under foot, trample on.
Checker: Sheena
Definition
v.t. to tread under foot: to tread with pride to insult.—v.i. to tread in contempt: to tread forcibly and rapidly.—n. a trampling.—n. Tramp′ler.
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Examples
- Oh, Frankenstein, be not equitable to every other, and trample upon me alone, to whom thy justice, and even thy clemency and affection, is most due. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I don't want Frederick to trample a hole in my muslin frock, as Captain Dobbin did in yours at Mrs. Perkins'. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He had placed himself at her feet so long that the poor little woman had been accustomed to trample upon him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- And I don't believe in any pay to make amends for bringing a lot of ruffians to trample your crops. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- And then she'd turn on you as if she'd trample you under her feet. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It's all very well to trample on it, but it's there. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Forgive my enthusiasm; I am becoming excited; but when I see her trampled underfoot, I am angry at the authors of her disgrace. Plato. The Republic.
- As it was, the poor devil was really trampled to death during the retreat of the enemy. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I passed along the tradesmen's path, but found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I should beg and pray to--to have the person taken away and trampled upon. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- You fill me with interest, I perceive that the ground has been trampled up a good deal. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I have not been trampled on. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- An impatient trampling of one of the horses made him presently look up. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Still, in no direction were there any appearances of the trampling of men in hurried flight. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The trooping in of numbers, the trampling of many steps and murmuring of many voices, were likewise audible. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- A sort of gathering and trampling sound was heard in the yard, and then a pause. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- There was scarcely any cessation now of the discharge of firearms; and there was struggling, rushing, trampling, and shouting between. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He was supposed to cure their diseases by trampling upon their breasts or backs or standing on the back of their necks. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He threw a sort of trampling quality even into the operations of commerce. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- If you were to die, who would stand my friend when the world tramples on me? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Professedly Martin Yorke (it is a young Yorke, of course) tramples on the name of poetry. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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