tramplingn.
The action of trample v.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > [noun] > with the foot > trampling
defoulc1330
tramplingc1440
conculcation1547
overtrampling1593
trample1604
calcation1656
occulcation1656
tramp1808
decalcation1827
the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > manner of walking > heavy
proculcation1656
tramping1660
stump1770
clampa1774
stumping1805
foot tramp1808
tramp1817
stomping1819
trampling1828
tromping1953
stomp1971
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 499/1 Trampelynge, tritura.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 282/2 Tramplynge with fete, marchage.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 45 Your Meddowes... Let them be kept from..trampling of Cattel.
1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Compl. Gard'ner ii. vi. iii. 170 Bringing the Dung..(which cannot be done without much trampling on the Soil).
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth iii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 77 After some..trampling up and down stairs, Dorothy appeared.
1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) II. xv. 286 The universal silence was first broken by the trampling of the invaders, on the leaves with which the face of the woody mountain was thickly strewed.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
tramplingadj.
That tramples, in various senses of the verb.
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society > authority > rule or government > oppression > [adjective]
tyrannish1390
oppressinga1475
tyrannica1492
tyranful1533
tyrannicala1538
tyrannous1556
tyranniousc1561
tramplinga1586
suppressing1589
grinding1598
ingrating1599
wringing1620
inquisitory1639
inquisitional1644
oppressive1646
tyrannial1651
grating1653
inquisitorial1796
oppressive1972
the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [adjective] > having specific manner of walking > heavy
tramplinga1586
pounding1678
stumping1843
tramping1893
the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > [adjective] > with the foot > trampling or trampled
trampledc1440
trodden1545
conculcate1583
tramplinga1586
obtrite1656
downtrodden1800
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [adjective] > regular or alternating rhythm > drumming
drumming1582
drumbling1630
drummy1831
trampling1841
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Astrophel & Stella (1591) 35 My Muse..Tempers her words to trampling horses feete More often than to a Chamber melodie.
1608 T. Middleton Trick to catch Old-one iv. sig. H A Iust iudgment..vpon vsury, extortion, and trampling Villany.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 292 Trampling Feet that shake the solid Ground.
1841 H. W. Longfellow Wreck of Hesperus in Boston Bk. (ed. 3) 76 It was the sound of the trampling surf, On the rocks and the hard sea-sand.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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