trample

About 0.49 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To crush something by walking on it.

   to trample grass or flowers

2. verb To treat someone harshly.
3. verb To walk heavily and destructively.
4. verb To cause emotional injury as if by trampling.
5. noun A heavy stepping.
6. noun The sound of heavy footsteps.

Similar words

tread pummel smash crush impinge squish protrude overrun trap quash

Often followed by

on upon the down under them it him over underfoot

Word family

trampled trampler tramplers tramples trampling