# trample
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English trample, from tramp +‎ -le (frequentative).
Attested in the original sense 'walk heavily' since early 14th century.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɹæmpəl/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -æmpəl

### Verb

trample (third-person singular simple present tramples, present participle trampling, simple past and past participle trampled)
* (transitive) To crush something by walking on it.
    to trample grass or flowers
** c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:Our conquering ſwords ſhal marſhal vs the way UUe vſe to martch vpon the ſlaughtered foe: Trampling their bowels with our horſes hoofes: […]
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 7:6:neither caſt ye your pearles before ſwine: leſt they trample them vnder their feete, […]
** 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:Everything a living animal could do to destroy and to desecrate bed and walls had been done. […] A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.
* (by extension) To treat someone harshly.
* (intransitive) To walk heavily and destructively.
** June 9, 1960, Charles Dickens, All the Year Round
    […] horses proud of the crimson and yellow shaving-brushes on their heads, and of the sharp tingling bells upon their harness that chime far along the glaring white road along which they trample […]
* (by extension) To cause emotional injury as if by trampling.
** 1782, William Cowper, “Conversation”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC:to trample on our Maker's laws

#### Synonyms

* (crush or stomp underfoot): calcate (obsolete)

#### Translations

Arabic: دَعَسَ (daʕasa), وَطِئَ (waṭiʔa)
Armenian: տրորել (hy) (trorel), կոխել (hy) (koxel)
Azerbaijani: tapdalamaq (az)
Bulgarian: стъпквам (bg) (stǎpkvam)
Catalan: trepitjar (ca), calcigar (ca)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 踩 (caai$^2$)
Mandarin: 踐踏 / 践踏 (zh) (jiàntà), 跴 (zh) (cǎi), 踩 (zh) (cǎi), 蹈 (zh) (dǎo)
Danish: trampe
Egyptian: (ptpt)
Finnish: talloa (fi), tallata (fi)
French: fouler (fr), piétiner (fr)
Galician: trepar
Georgian: გადათელავს (gadatelavs)
German: trampeln (de), zertrampeln (de), herumtrampeln
Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐍄𐍂𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌽 (gatrudan)
Greek:
Ancient: καταπατέω (katapatéō)
Ingrian: talloa
Irish: dramhail
Italian: calpestare (it), pestare (it)
Japanese: 踏み荒らす (ふみあらす, fumiarasu), 踏みつける (ふみつける, fumitsukeru)
Kabuverdianu: kalka
Latin: calcō
Lithuanian: trypti, sutrypti
Manchu: ᡶᡝᡥᡠᠮᠪᡳ (fehumbi)
Maori: hūkari, takahi, takatakahi
Occitan: trepejar (oc), caupir, pompir (oc), sonsir (oc), penejar
Ottoman Turkish: چیكنه‌مك (çiğnemek), طبانلامق (tabanlamak), آیاقلامق (ayaklamak)
Polish: rozdeptywać
Portuguese: pisotear (pt)
Russian: топта́ть (ru) impf (toptátʹ), растопта́ть (ru) pf (rastoptátʹ)
Spanish: pisotear (es), hollar (es), apisonar (es)
Telugu: మట్టు (te) (maṭṭu)
Welsh: sengi (cy), sangu (cy), sathru
Yiddish: צעטרעטן (tsetretn) :
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### Noun

trample (plural tramples)
* A heavy stepping.
** 2015, Lucy Corne, Josephine Quintero, Lonely Planet Canary Islands:Newly harvested grapes are poured into a vast vat for everyone to have a good trample upon […]
* The sound of heavy footsteps.

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* Lampert, Templar, templar

## German
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

trample
* inflection of trampeln:
** first-person singular present
** singular imperative
** first/third-person singular subjunctive I

## Hunsrik
### Etymology

From Middle High German *trampen, itself borrowed from Middle Low German trampen, from Old Saxon *trampan, from Proto-West Germanic *trampan (“to step”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtramplə/

### Verb

trample
* to tread
* to trample

#### Conjugation

The present participle is uncommonly used, but can be made with the suffix -end.

### Further reading

* Online Hunsrik Dictionary