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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
trample
    n 1: the sound of heavy treading or stomping; "he heard the
         trample of many feet" [syn: trample, trampling]
    v 1: tread or stomp heavily or roughly; "The soldiers trampled
         across the fields" [syn: tread, trample]
    2: injure by trampling or as if by trampling; "The passerby was
       trampled by an elephant"
    3: walk on and flatten; "tramp down the grass"; "trample the
       flowers" [syn: tramp down, trample, tread down]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Trample \Tram"ple\, n.
   The act of treading under foot; also, the sound produced by
   trampling. --Milton.
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         The huddling trample of a drove of sheep. --Lowell.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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            Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they
            trample them under their feet.        --Matt. vii.
                                                  6.
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   2. Fig.: To treat with contempt and insult. --Cowper.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Trample \Tram"ple\, v. i.
   1. To tread with force and rapidity; to stamp.
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   2. To tread in contempt; -- with on or upon.
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            Diogenes trampled on Plato's pride with greater of
            his own.                              --Gov. of
                                                  Tongue.
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Thesaurus Results for trample:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
break down, clop, clump, contemn, crush, damage, defy, destroy, disdain, disregard, drub, extinguish, flatten, harm, hit and run, hurt, ignore, inundate, overflow, override, overrun, pound, press, put out, ride down, ride over, ride roughshod over, run down, run over, scorn, set at naught, squash, squish, stamp, stamp on, stamp out, stomp, stunt, tramp, trample down, trample on, trample out, trample underfoot, trample upon, tread, tread upon, violate
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