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:
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.
Take another example, that of trampling on fish.
He is trampling on our rights, trying to go round to the back door and introduce measures by undemocratic means.
It is simply creating another dinosaur, trampling over existing arrangements and causing confusion.
Clearly an organisation that exists to support the interests of its members is hardly likely to make a practice of trampling on their rights.
There will be the physical disturbance of uneducated people trampling down fences, destroying crops and the like.
I refuse to allow them to go on trampling down on our basic freedoms.
To portray me as some kind of brute or monster, trampling on the freedom of the islands, would be wrong.
He is himself engaged in destroying everything that the revolution stood for and trampling underfoot its undoubted successes.
