Tremble vs Trample - What's the difference?
tremble | trample |
To shake, quiver, or vibrate.
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.}}
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 tremble and trample
is that tremble is while trample is to crush something by walking on it.As a noun trample is
the sound of heavy footsteps.tremble
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trample
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(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)
