What does "trample" mean?
Trample: 2. Fig.: To treat with contempt and insult. Cowper.
Additional senses
- 2.To tread with force and rapidity; to stamp.
- 3.To tread in contempt; -- with on or upon. Diogenes trampled on Plato's pride with greater of his own. Gov. of Tongue.
- 4.The act of treading under foot; also, the sound produced by trampling. Milton. The huddling trample of a drove of sheep. Lowell.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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