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

(devastat)

To ruin many or all things over a large area, such as most or all buildings of a city, or cities of a region, or trees of a forest.

To destroy a whole collection of related ideas, beliefs, and strongly held opinions.

To break beyond recovery or repair so that the only options are abandonment or the clearing away of useless remains (if any) and starting over.