| 单词 | trample |
| 释义 | trample (once / 531 pages) vn To trample is to forcefully walk right over something or someone. If you fall down during a footrace, another runner might trample you. When you trample, you're stomping or stamping: it's the opposite of walking on tippy toes. A dog might trample a flower garden while chasing a ball, and an angry child might deliberately trample her sister's sandcastle, flattening it with her feet. The verb trample comes from tramp, "walk heavily or stamp," which is rooted in the Middle Low German word trampen, "to tramp, stamp, or press upon." WORD FAMILYtrample: trampled, trampler, tramples, trampling+/trampler: tramplers/trampling: tramplings USAGE EXAMPLESDuring the 1828 US presidential transition, Andrew Jackson’s wife died, his steamboat was mobbed, and partygoers trampled mud in the White House. The Guardian(Dec 24, 2016) The “s” struggling to hang on at the end of “Happy Holidays” fell, exhausted, and was trampled beneath thousands of tiny, pawing, prancing reindeer hooves. Washington Post(Dec 12, 2016) Dovish opposition legislators said such a move would trample on the right to free expression, while acknowledging the poster was in bad taste. Washington Times(Dec 13, 2016) 1v tread or stomp heavily or roughly The soldiers trampled across the fields Syn|Hypo|Hyper tread treadle tread over walk use one's feet to advance; advance by steps 2v walk on and flatten trample the flowers Syn|Hyper tramp down, tread down walk use one's feet to advance; advance by steps 3v injure by trampling or as if by trampling The passerby was trampled by an elephant Hyper injure, wound cause injuries or bodily harm to 4n the sound of heavy treading or stomping he heard the trample of many feet Syn|Hyper trampling sound the sudden occurrence of an audible event |
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