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)