TRAMPLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does trample mean? 

• TRAMPLE (noun)
  The noun TRAMPLE has 1 sense:

1. the sound of heavy treading or stomping

  Familiarity information: TRAMPLE used as a noun is very rare.

• TRAMPLE (verb)
  The verb TRAMPLE has 3 senses:

1. tread or stomp heavily or roughly

2. injure by trampling or as if by trampling

3. walk on and flatten

  Familiarity information: TRAMPLE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRAMPLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The sound of heavy treading or stomping

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

trample; trampling

Context example:

he heard the trample of many feet

Hypernyms ("trample" is a kind of...):

sound (the sudden occurrence of an audible event)

Derivation:

trample (injure by trampling or as if by trampling)

trample (walk on and flatten)

trample (tread or stomp heavily or roughly)

• TRAMPLE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they trample    ... he / she / it tramples   
Past simple: trampled   
Past participle: trampled   
-ing form: trampling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tread or stomp heavily or roughly

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

trample; tread

Context example:

The soldiers trampled across the fields

Hypernyms (to "trample" is one way to...):

walk (use one's feet to advance; advance by steps)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "trample"):

treadle (tread over)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Sentence example:

The children trample to the playground

Derivation:

trample (the sound of heavy treading or stomping)

trampler (someone who walks with a heavy noisy gait or who stamps on the ground)

trampling (the sound of heavy treading or stomping)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Injure by trampling or as if by trampling

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Context example:

The passerby was trampled by an elephant

Hypernyms (to "trample" is one way to...):

injure; wound (cause injuries or bodily harm to)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

trample (the sound of heavy treading or stomping)

trampler (someone who injures by trampling)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Walk on and flatten

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

tramp down; trample; tread down

Context example:

trample the flowers

Hypernyms (to "trample" is one way to...):

walk (use one's feet to advance; advance by steps)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

trample (the sound of heavy treading or stomping)

trampler (someone who injures by trampling)

 Context examples 

“How can you bear to trample on his undeserved affliction!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Begone, vile insect! Or rather, stay, that I may trample you to dust!

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

You fill me with interest, I perceive that the ground has been trampled up a good deal.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have not been trampled on.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The flowers were trampled down, and the soft soil was imprinted all over with footmarks.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I now heard a trampling over my head, and somebody calling through the hole with a loud voice, in the English tongue, “If there be any body below, let them speak.”

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Are we trampling the life out of the Kalahari?

(Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, NSF)

And yet, if there was ever a slave trampled by the strong, that slave was his sister Gertrude.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

To Holmes, as I could see by his eager face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read upon the trampled grass.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Remained only the trampled snow to show how closely they had pressed him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)