trample
To step on something hard and damage it.
To step heavily on something so that it becomes damaged, flattened, or crushed.
To hurt someone because many feet step on them.
To knock down and injure or kill a person or animal by stepping on them, often in a rush of people or by large animals.
To ignore and badly break someone’s rights or feelings.
To treat someone or something as having no value, especially by ignoring or violating rights, rules, or feelings.
the sound or action of many heavy steps
The act or sound of people or animals stepping heavily, especially in large numbers.
- Base: trample
- 3rd Person Singular: tramples
- Present Participle: trampling
- Past: trampled
be/get trampled underfoot
1be ignored or mistreated
To be ignored and treated badly.
- Small communities fear their concerns will be trampled underfoot.
- In the rush to cut costs, safety can get trampled underfoot.
- Our needs were trampled underfoot.
- His voice got trampled underfoot in the debate.
trample all over [someone]
1treat someone with contempt
To be very disrespectful to someone.
- He tramples all over his coworkers and then acts surprised when they complain.
- If you keep trampling all over her, she’ll eventually leave.
- Stop trampling all over me.
- She felt he was trampling all over her opinions.
trample on/upon [something]
1violate or disrespect something
To break or ignore something important.
- No leader should trample on the constitution.
- They felt the company had trampled upon their privacy.
- Don’t trample on the rules.
- The law protects people from having their rights trampled on.
trample out [something]
1extinguish by stamping
To stop a fire by stepping on it.
- He trampled out the burning paper before it spread.
- Please trample out your cigarette completely before you leave.
- He trampled out the fire.
- Trample out the flame quickly.