单词 | trample |
释义 | trample (træmpəl ) Word forms: tramples , trampling , trampled 1. verb To trample on someone's rights or values or to trample them means to deliberately ignore or destroy them. They say loggers are destroying rain forests and trampling on the rights of indigenous people. [VERB + on] Diplomats denounced the leaders for trampling their citizens' civil rights. [VERB noun] They do not want to see the good name of their club trampled underfoot. [VERB noun] 2. verb [usually passive] If someone is trampled, they are injured or killed by being stepped on by animals or by other people. Many people were trampled in the panic that followed. [be VERB-ed] Thousands of victims perished, trampled underfoot. [VERB-ed] Synonyms: crush, squash, flatten, run over 3. verb If someone tramples something or tramples on it, they step heavily and carelessly on it and damage it. They don't want people trampling the grass, pitching tents or building fires. [VERB noun] ...half-ripe apples that were being trampled underfoot by the fighting men. [VERB noun] Please don't trample on the azaleas. [VERB + on] There was a smell of trampled grass and earth. [VERB-ed] Synonyms: stamp, crush, squash, tread Collocations: trampled underfoot The victims of the crush were pushed against the walls or trampled underfoot. Times, Sunday Times (2010) It will be thrown out and trampled underfoot as worthless. Christianity Today (2000) Anybody who stood in his path was trampled underfoot. The Sun (2015) International law has been trampled underfoot. Times, Sunday Times (2010) Many objects had been swept off the shelves or emptied out of boxes, and then trampled underfoot. Times, Sunday Times (2008) Translations: Chinese: 无视 Japanese: 無視する |
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