'Trample' definitions:

Definition of 'trample'

noun

The sound of heavy treading or stomping; "he heard the trample of many feet" [syn: trample, trampling]

verb

Tread or stomp heavily or roughly; "The soldiers trampled across the fields" [syn: tread, trample]

verb

Injure by trampling or as if by trampling; "The passerby was trampled by an elephant"

verb

Walk on and flatten; "tramp down the grass"; "trample the flowers" [syn: tramp down, trample, tread down]

From: GCIDE

Trample \Tram"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trampled; p. pr. & vb. n. Trampling.] [OE. trampelen, freq. of trampen. See Tramp, v. t.]
1. To tread under foot; to tread down; to prostrate by treading; as, to trample grass or flowers. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet. --Matt. vii. 6. [1913 Webster]
2. Fig.: To treat with contempt and insult. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]

From: GCIDE

Trample \Tram"ple\, v. i.
1. To tread with force and rapidity; to stamp. [1913 Webster]
2. To tread in contempt; -- with on or upon. [1913 Webster]
Diogenes trampled on Plato's pride with greater of his own. --Gov. of Tongue. [1913 Webster]

From: GCIDE

Trample \Tram"ple\, n. The act of treading under foot; also, the sound produced by trampling. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
The huddling trample of a drove of sheep. --Lowell. [1913 Webster]