trample

Meanings

Plural: tramples

Noun

• the sound of heavy treading or stomping
  • "he heard the trample of many feet"
• A heavy stepping.
• The sound of heavy footsteps.

Verb

• tread or stomp heavily or roughly
  • "The soldiers trampled across the fields"
• injure by trampling or as if by trampling
  • "The passerby was trampled by an elephant"
• walk on and flatten
  • "trample the flowers"
• To crush something by walking on it.
• To treat someone harshly.
• To walk heavily and destructively.
• To cause emotional injury as if by trampling.

Synonyms

calcate, tramp down, trampling, tread, tread down