Verb

(trampl)

To crush something by walking on it.

to trample grass or flowers

* Bible, Matthew vii. 6

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

*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=Everything a living animal could do to destroy and to desecrate bed and walls had been done. […]  A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.}}

(by extension) To treat someone harshly.

To walk heavily and destructively.

* Charles Dickens

(by extension) To cause emotional injury as if by trampling.

(Cowper)

Verb

(en verb)

(label) To trample underfoot.

*:

*:And so whanne they had horsed the kynges ageyne they drewe hem al xj kynges to gyder and said they wold be reuenged of the dommage that they had taken that day / The meane whyle cam in syr Ector with an egyr countenaunce / and found Vlfyus and Brastias on foote in grete perylle of deth that were fowle defoyled vnder horsfeet

(label) To physically crush or break.

*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=Charles Sylvester, title= Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5

, passage=Then Sir Galahad began to break spears marvelously, that all men had wonder of him; for he there surmounted all other knights, for within a while he had defouled many good knights of the Table Round save twain, that was Sir Launcelot and Sir Percivale.}}

(label) To oppress, keep down.

(label) To defile the chastity of; to debauch, to rape.