different between trample vs stepon

English

Etymology

From Middle English trample, from tramp +? -le (frequentative).

Attested in the original sense 'walk heavily' since early 14th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?æmp?l/
• Rhymes: -æmp?l

Verb

trample (third-person singular simple present tramples, present participle trampling, simple past and past participle trampled)

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

   to trample grass or flowers

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

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Cowper to this entry?)

Translations

Noun

trample (plural 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.

Translations

Anagrams

• Lampert, Templar, templar

German

Pronunciation

Verb

trample

1. inflection of trampeln:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative
   3. first/third-person singular subjunctive I

Hunsrik

Etymology

From Middle High German *trampen, itself borrowed from Middle Low German trampen, from Old Saxon *trampan, from Proto-West Germanic *trampan (“to step”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?trampl?/

Verb

trample

1. to tread
2. to trample

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Esperanto

Noun

stepon

1. accusative singular of stepo