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:
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.
Of the ones retrieved, some would have been trampled.
However, this may be an underestimate since sheep continued to graze all fields during the study and may have ingested or trampled on pellets.
This ensured that the dung could not be trampled by large animals.
In the trampled plots, the leaf litter within the plots was trampled at weekly intervals with ten footsteps by a researcher wearing rubber boots.
Women suffered before: houses were burnt down, cattle trampled our fields, there were forced displacements of people.
A notable exception to the above generalization is the hippopotamus, which grazes on swamp vegetation and causes considerable damage to trampled plants by its enormous body weight.
A people that knows how to throw itself into battle at the instant of danger, knowing how to fight heroically for its rights when these were trampled on.
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.
