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TRAMPLE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The sound of heavy treading or stomping

Example:

he heard the trample of many feet

Synonyms:

trample; trampling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("trample" is a kind of...):

sound (the sudden occurrence of an audible event)

Derivation:

trample (injure by trampling or as if by trampling)

trample (walk on and flatten)

trample (tread or stomp heavily or roughly)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Injure by trampling or as if by trampling

Example:

The passerby was trampled by an elephant

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "trample" is one way to...):

injure; wound (cause injuries or bodily harm to)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

trample (the sound of heavy treading or stomping)

trampler (someone who injures by trampling)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Walk on and flatten

Example:

trample the flowers

Synonyms:

tramp down; trample; tread down

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "trample" is one way to...):

walk (use one's feet to advance; advance by steps)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

trample (the sound of heavy treading or stomping)

trampler (someone who injures by trampling)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Tread or stomp heavily or roughly

Example:

The soldiers trampled across the fields

Synonyms:

trample; tread

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "trample" is one way to...):

walk (use one's feet to advance; advance by steps)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "trample"):

treadle (tread over)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Sentence example:

The children trample to the playground

Derivation:

trample (the sound of heavy treading or stomping)

trampler (someone who walks with a heavy noisy gait or who stamps on the ground)

trampling (the sound of heavy treading or stomping)

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 Context examples: 

But she lay there limp and lifeless in the bloody, trampled snow, almost literally torn to pieces, the swart half-breed standing over her and cursing horribly.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Down went Pew with a cry that rang high into the night; and the four hoofs trampled and spurned him and passed by.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

But whilst they were getting all ready, they heard the trampling of a horse at a distance, which so frightened them that they pushed their prisoner neck and shoulders together into a sack, and swung him up by a cord to the tree, where they left him dangling, and ran away.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

For a moment it seemed as though he would have reached it, for he had trampled over or dashed aside the archers who threw themselves in his way; but Hordle John seized him by the foot in his grasp of iron and dragged him from the saddle, while two others caught the frightened horse.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Well, sir, the two ran into one another naturally enough at the corner; and then came the horrible part of the thing; for the man trampled calmly over the child’s body and left her screaming on the ground.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Laurie sat bold upright, and meekly took her empty plate feeling an odd sort of pleasure in having 'little Amy' order him about, for she had lost her shyness now, and felt an irrestible desire to trample on him, as girls have a delightful way of doing when lords of creation show any signs of subjection.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“I would trample on them all,” she answered.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Sir, it removed my veil from its gaunt head, rent it in two parts, and flinging both on the floor, trampled on them.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I passed along the tradesmen’s path, but found it all trampled down and indistinguishable.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then stretching himself upon his face and leaning his chin upon his hands, he made a careful study of the trampled mud in front of him.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)