Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Trample \Tram"ple\, v. i.
   1. To tread with force and rapidity; to stamp.

   2. To tread in contempt; -- with on or upon.

            Diogenes trampled on Plato's pride with greater of
            his own.                              --Gov. of
                                                  Tongue.

Trample \Tram"ple\, n.
   The act of treading under foot; also, the sound produced by
   trampling. --Milton.

         The huddling trample of a drove of sheep. --Lowell.

Trample \Tram"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Trampled}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Trampling}.] [OE. trampelen, freq. of trampen. See
   {Tramp}, v. t.]
   1. To tread under foot; to tread down; to prostrate by
      treading; as, to trample grass or flowers. --Dryden.

            Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they
            trample them under their feet.        --Matt. vii.
                                                  6.

   2. Fig.: To treat with contempt and insult. --Cowper.

Source : WordNet®

trample
     n : the sound of heavy treading or stomping; "he heard the
         trample of many feet" [syn: {trampling}]

trample
     v 1: tread or stomp heavily or roughly; "The soldiers trampled
          across the fields" [syn: {tread}]
     2: injure by trampling or as if by trampling; "The passerby was
        trampled by an elephant"
     3: walk on and flatten; "tramp down the grass"; "trample the
        flowers" [syn: {tramp down}, {tread down}]