Word Finder - trampling

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To crush something by walking on it.

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to trample grass or flowers

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(by extension) To treat someone harshly.

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To walk heavily and destructively.

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(by extension) To cause emotional injury as if by trampling.

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The act of something that tramples.

The regular trampling of cattle can wipe out common nettle.

Avoid trampling meadow grass by staying in single file through meadows in summer.

From the room above came a shout, a cry for help, and then the sound of trampling feet and of falling chairs.

The symbolic aliens are frequently replaced by a savage authoritarian regime trampling on freedom.

For them, it was plainly the Chancellor who spent the campaign trampling all over colleagues ' territory.

This will help to protect the tree seedlings which are essential to the survival of the wood and cannot withstand trampling.

You'll also end up trampling over the soil, which compacts it or pushes it down and makes it harder for the plants' roots to develop.

A small posse of Police then headed into the crops, trampling down more crops than the protesters.

The erosion scars of paths, however, suffer constant trampling pressure; with no opportunities for re-vegetation they will only get worse.

The heather is wonderful but as we are warned, vulnerable to trampling, so stick to slogging around the paths please.

This is often taken to mean the threshing of the corn to produce bread and the trampling of grapes to produce wine.

Please take care to avoid trampling the hay crop, or disturbing grazing livestock.

There is already evidence of diffuse trampling damage over considerable areas of the plateau and the path network has extended in recent years.

At the first sound of trampling hoofs and shouting, Petya lashed his horse and loosening his rein galloped forward, not heeding Denisov who shouted at him.

Usually you will see several lines covering a nightclub's dance floor, and every cowgirl and cowboy out there better know the line dance steps, or they risk a mighty trampling of buckles and boots!

A trellis path should run along the centre, and movable pieces of trellis should be provided to prevent trampling on the soil while dressing and tying in the young wood.

Nothing came of the proposed engagement, but the wrongs of Honoria, his affianced wife, served as a convenient pretext for some of the constantly recurring embassies with which Attila, fond of trampling on the fallen majesty of Rome, worried and bullied the two courts of Constantinople and Ravenna.

When he jumped up he did not run at once, but pricked his ears listening to the shouting and trampling that resounded from all sides at once.

That army, like a herd of cattle run wild and trampling underfoot the provender which might have saved it from starvation, disintegrated and perished with each additional day it remained in Moscow.

The Austrian government, after the subjection of Hungary, withdrew every concession it had made under pressure, and established a thorough despotism, trampling upon the rights of the individual nationalities, and forcing all its subjects into a common political mould.

Among these are a Roman slab, carved with figures of a horseman trampling upon an enemy, several fine tombs and stones of the 13th and 14th centuries, the frith or fridstool of stone, believed to be the original bishop's throne, and the fine Perpendicular roodscreen of oak, retaining its loft.

After the stalks have been removed either by hand or by a simple apparatus the juice is expressed either - as is still the case in many quarters - by trampling under foot or by means of a simple lever or screw press or by rollers.

In spite of the trampling of the French gendarmes' horses, which were pushing back the crowd, Rostov kept his eyes on every movement of Alexander and Bonaparte.

Among the advantages of enclosures, he observes, " you will gain much more labour from your servants, a great part of whose time was taken up in gathering thistles and other garbage for their horses to feed upon in their stables; and thereby the great trampling and pulling up and other destruction of the corns while they are yet tender will be prevented."

Another group of sketches shows the horse galloping or rearing in violent action, in some instances in the act of trampling a fallen enemy.