• IPA: /ˈtɹæmpəl/

trample (tramples, present participle trampling; past and past participle trampled)

1. (transitive) To crush something by walking on it.

   to trample grass or flowers

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Matthew 7:6 ↗:

     Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet.

2. (by extension) To treat someone harshly.
3. (intransitive) To walk heavily and destructively.
   • , All the Year Round

     […] horses proud of the crimson and yellow shaving-brushes on their heads, and of the sharp tingling bells upon their harness that chime far along the glaring white road along which they trample […]

4. (by extension) To cause emotional injury as if by trampling.

• French: piétiner
• German: trampeln, zertrampeln, herumtrampeln
• Italian: calpestare, pestare
• Portuguese: pisotear
• Russian: топта́ть
• Spanish: pisotear, hollar

• German: herumtrampeln auf
• Italian: offendere, urtare, maltrattare
• Spanish: pisotear, maltratar, humillar

• German: trampeln
• Italian: calpestare, pestare
• Russian: то́пать
• Spanish: pisotear

• German: trampeln
• Italian: offendere, violare
• Spanish: ofender, humillar

trample (plural tramples)

1. A heavy stepping.
   • 2015, Lucy Corne, ‎Josephine Quintero, Lonely Planet Canary Islands

     Newly harvested grapes are poured into a vast vat for everyone to have a good trample upon […]

2. The sound of heavy footsteps.

• German: Trampeln
• Italian: calpestio
• Spanish: pisoteada, pisoteo