Trample | Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Trăm'ple, v. t.

verbtransitive

(trăm'pl), v. t. [imp. & p. p. TRAMPLED; p. pr. & vb. n. TRAMPLING.] [Ger. trampeln, from trampen, D. trampelen, trappelen. See supra.]

Sense 1. To tread under foot; especially, to tread upon with pride, contempt, triumph, or scorn.

Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet. Matt. vii. 6.

Sense 2. To tread down; to prostrate by treading; as, to trample grass.

Sense 3. To treat with pride, contempt, and insult.

Trăm'ple, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. 1°. To tread in contempt; — with on or upon. Diogenes trampled on Plato's pride with greater of his own. Gov. of the Tongue. 2. To tread with force and rapidity.

Trăm'ple, n.

noun

n. The act of treading under foot with contempt. [Rare.] Milton.