0 past simple and past 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:
He argues that Congress trampled the constitutional rights of legal immigrants in the new welfare reform law.
She accused the government of trampling on the needs and rights of the ordinary citizen.
Human rights are trampled over on a daily basis, while poverty and misery in both the third world and the developed countries grow worse.
If they fall down, they stay down, trampled by their companions.
Already, this sodden field has been trampled into a quagmire.
Nevertheless, we can be left with the impression that before the nineteenth century ethnic boundaries were so trampled underfoot that they were barely recognizable to the people rushing across them.
Still, we could say that his act is impermissible because it would actually require these things being done to people if the munitions are to be trampled.
Refused fodder is trampled with faeces.
We created 300 1-m2 plots randomly assigned to controls and four treatments: clumped food supplementation, diffuse food supplementation, removal of leaf litter, and trampled leaf litter.
This was due to the fragility of the milk carton traps; they were trampled by sheep and kangaroos, and could be eaten completely in less than four weeks.
