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trampled

trampled is the simple past and past participle of trample.

Meaning of trample

Verb

trample (third-person singular simple present tramples, present participle trampling, simple past and past participle trampled)

  1. (transitive) To crush something by walking on it.
    • to trample grass or flowers
    Synonyms:
    tread, calcate
  2. (broadly) To treat someone harshly.
  3. (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 […]
  4. (broadly) To cause emotional injury as if by trampling.
    • to trample on our Maker's laws1782, William Cowper, “Conversation”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC

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Questions about trampled

What is trampled the simple past and past participle of?
Trampled is the simple past and past participle of trample.

Words near trampled in the dictionary

  1. trampism
  2. tramplate
  3. tramplates
  4. trample
  5. trample out
  6. trampled
  7. trampler
  8. tramplers
  9. tramples
  10. tramplest
  11. trampleth

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