(~s, trampling, ~d)
1.
To ~ on someone’s rights or values or to ~ 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 ~d, they are injured or killed by being stepped on by animals or by other people.
Many people were ~d in the panic that followed...
VERB: usu passive, be V-ed
3.
If someone ~s something or ~s 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 ~ on the azaleas...
VERB: V n, V on n