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trampling

trampling is the present participle and gerund 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

See all 6 meanings of trample

Noun

trampling (countable and uncountable, plural tramplings)

  1. The act of trampling someone or something, an instance of trampling.
    • The awfulest thing was the silence; there wasn't a sound but the screaking of the saddles, the measured tramplings, and the sneezing of the horses, afflicted by the smothering dust-clouds which they kicked up.1895 October, Louis de Conte, translated by [Jean François Alden] [pseudonyms; Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)], “Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc. […]”, in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine...
    Synonyms:
    calcation

Synonyms of trampling

Forms of trampling

pluraltramplings

Questions about trampling

What does trampling mean?
Trampling means the act of trampling someone or something, an instance of trampling.
What is trampling the present participle and gerund of?
Trampling is the present participle and gerund of trample.
What part of speech is trampling?
Trampling is a noun.
What is the plural of trampling?
The plural of trampling is tramplings.

Words near trampling in the dictionary

  1. tramplers
  2. tramples
  3. tramplest
  4. trampleth
  5. tramplike
  6. trampling
  7. tramplingly
  8. tramplings
  9. trampolin
  10. trampoline
  11. trampoline effect

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