Trample vs X - What's the difference?
trample | x |
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.
The twenty-fourth letter of the .
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As a verb trample
is to crush something by walking on it.As a noun trample
is the sound of heavy footsteps.As a letter x is
the twenty-fourth letter of the.As a symbol x is
voiceless velar fricative.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)