KJV Dictionary Definition: trample

trample

TRAM'PLE, v.t.

1. To tread under foot; especially, to tread upon with pride, contempt, triumph or scorn.

Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet. Matt. 7.

2. To tread down; to prostrate by treading; as, to trample grass.

3. To treat with pride, contempt and insult.

TRAM'PLE, v.i. To tread in contempt.

Diogenes trampled on Plato's pride with greater of his own.

1. To tread with force and rapidity.

TRAM'PLE, n. The act of treading under foot with contempt.

trampled

TRAM'PLED, pp. Trod on; trodden under foot.

trampling

TRAM'PLING, ppr. Treading under foot; prostrating by treading; treading with contempt and insult.

Definitions from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.

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