trampleとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹæmpəl/
  • 韻: -æmpəl

動詞

trample (三人称単数 現在形 tramples, 現在分詞 trampling, 過去形および過去分詞形 trampled)

1. (transitive) To crush something by walking on it.

   to trample grass or flowers

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Matthew 7:6:

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

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess‎^[1]:

     Everything a living animal could do to destroy and to desecrate bed and walls had been done. […]  A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.

2. (by extension) To treat someone harshly.
3. (intransitive) To walk heavily and destructively.
   • June 9, 1960, Charles Dickens, All the Year Round

     […] horses proud of the crimson and yellow shaving-brushes on their heads, and of the sharp tingling bells upon their harness that chime far along the glaring white road along which they trample […]

4. (by extension) To cause emotional injury as if by trampling.
   • 1782, William Cowper, “Conversation”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], OCLC 1029672464:

     to trample on our Maker's laws

名詞

trample (複数形 tramples)

1. A heavy stepping.
   • 2015, Lucy Corne, Josephine Quintero, Lonely Planet Canary Islands

     Newly harvested grapes are poured into a vast vat for everyone to have a good trample upon […]

2. The sound of heavy footsteps.

アナグラム

• Lampert, Templar, templar