transcription, транскрипция: [ træmp(ə)l ]
( tramples, trampling, trampled)
1.
To trample on someone’s rights or values or to trample them means to deliberately ignore them.
They say loggers are destroying rain forests and trampling on the rights of natives...
Diplomats denounced the leaders for trampling their citizens’ civil rights...
VERB : V on n , V n
2.
If someone is trampled , they are injured or killed by being stepped on by animals or by other people.
Many people were trampled in the panic that followed...
VERB : usu passive , be V-ed
3.
If someone tramples something or tramples on it, they step heavily and carelessly on it and damage it.
They don’t want people trampling the grass, pitching tents or building fires...
Please don’t trample on the azaleas...
VERB : V n , V on n