Trample vs Disregard - What's the difference?
trample | disregard |
To crush something by walking on it.
* Bible, Matthew vii. 6
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=Foreword (by extension) To treat someone harshly.
To walk heavily and destructively.
* Charles Dickens
(by extension) To cause emotional injury as if by trampling.
As verbs the difference between trample and disregard
is that trample is to crush something by walking on it while disregard is to ignore; misregard.As nouns the difference between trample and disregard
is that trample is the sound of heavy footsteps while disregard is the act or state of deliberately not paying attention or caring about; misregard.trample
English
Verb
(trampl)- to trample grass or flowers
- Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet.
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.}}
- (Cowper)
