verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
on
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It's getting there without trampling on too many people.
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Several people were trampled on and crushed.
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The canvas, which was trampled on and folded up despite its great size, vanished.
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She jumped to her feet, screaming in terror, certain that she was about to be trampled on .
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The complex understandings and practices that had shaped the relationship between central and local government had been trampled on .
over
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And behind him, yet another three, pouring through the gap, trampling over their fallen companions in their eagerness.
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L7 aren't half-arsed rockers, they trample over most of their rivals, they don't want to be blokes.
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There shouldn't have been a cattle herd of feet trampling over the grass.
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She would not let him trample over her!
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Occasionally, one would flick snow at the other - although by now the snow was well trampled over a wide area.
underfoot
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Their black gowns flowed to the floor where they were frequently trampled underfoot by passing waiters.
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The problem is not, as you might think, that the butterflies are being trampled underfoot .
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She felt certain that she must fall on her face and be trampled underfoot .
■ NOUN
death
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Rangers rarely respond to their outcry when a person is trampled to death by the same beasts.
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The man we trampled to death is again alive.
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In the same area, a farmer was trampled to death by his cattle, a vicar ran amok in his church.
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If grass had ever grown there, every blade had been trampled to death long ago.
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The calves must be roped and led out of the stockade first, lest the terrified adults trample them to death .
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I was terrified of being trampled to death .
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In a tournament at Paris in August 1186 Duke Geoffrey was trampled to death .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
trample sb/sth underfoot
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Kids chasing balls have trampled the flower beds.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But the imperial rescript tramples such considerations under foot.
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But they could, of course, take it to indicate that they can trample all over you.
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If grass had ever grown there, every blade had been trampled to death long ago.
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If he thought he could trample roughshod over her plans, just as he pleased, he had a lot to learn.
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Lopped off brambles lay around and the long grass was all trampled.
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Rock fall and trampling in the narrow confines of a cave are two major factors.
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Three hundred workpeople trampling about and regular cleaning means traces are going to be destroyed long ago, I would have thought.
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We should overlook the trampled grass in the square and the lowly origins of the glistening fountain.