0 present participle of trample
1 to step heavily on something or someone, causing damage or injury:
2 to act without any respect for someone or something:
She accused the government of trampling on the needs and rights of the ordinary citizen.
He argues that Congress trampled the constitutional rights of legal immigrants in the new welfare reform law.
However, cattle herds occasionally enter the park, but only border areas are noticeably affected by livestock feeding and trampling (pers. obs.).
Reports of attacks on crops took two key forms: either deliberate trampling or the letting of animals into the field, thereby ruining the crop.
The effects of trampling and soil compaction were relatively limited at nest sites.
Using only three sites reduced the possibility of excessive trampling across the plot when retrieving the litter bags.
Negative growth in seedlings is quite common due to stem breakage or damage from falling branch debris, browsing or trampling by animals and insect clipping or grazing.
But trampling on a young person's expression of desire and direction in the name of protecting his or her future fails to ensure respect for dignity.
Pupae at each farm were placed in barns on the floor near sites of natural occurrence for fly pupae, but outside of pens to avoid trampling by livestock.
He is himself engaged in destroying everything that the revolution stood for and trampling underfoot its undoubted successes.
