trample means A heavy stepping.
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trample is pronounced /ˈtɹæmpəl/.
Etymology
From Middle English tramplen, trampelen (“to walk heavily”), equivalent to tramp + -le. Cognate with Saterland Frisian trampelje (“to trample”), Dutch trampelen (“to trample”), German Low German trampeln (“to trample”), German trampeln (“to trample”).
noun
- A heavy stepping.e.g.“Newly harvested grapes are poured into a vast vat for everyone to have a good trample upon […]” — 2015, Lucy Corne, Josephine Quintero, Lonely Planet Canary Islands:
- The sound of heavy footsteps.
verb
- To crush something by walking on it.e.g.“to trample grass or flowers”
- To treat someone harshly.
- To walk heavily and destructively.
- To cause emotional injury as if by trampling.e.g.“to trample on our Maker's laws” — 1782, William Cowper, “Conversation”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC:
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