(v. t.) To tread under foot; to tread down; to prostrate by treading; as, to trample grass or flowers.
(v. t.) Fig.: To treat with contempt and insult.
(v. i.) To tread with force and rapidity; to stamp.
(v. i.) To tread in contempt; -- with on or upon.
(n.) The act of treading under foot; also, the sound produced by trampling.
Example Sentences:
(1) A report released on Wednesday said Prevent was badly flawed , potentially counterproductive and risked trampling on the basic rights of young Muslims.
(2) Labour sources said they also wanted to make sure that the legislation was tightened up so jobseekers' regular rights of appeal, separate to the court of appeal judgment, were not also trampled on by the new law.
(3) The GOP is doing a big favor for Canadian oil interests by trampling the long-established process for making these important environmental decisions.
(4) In 1819, the area of Manchester then known as St Peter's Field was the scene of a watershed moment in the struggle for universal suffrage, when around 15 protesters were variously bayoneted, shot and trampled to death in the so-called Peterloo Massacre .
(5) "We have an African proverb: when two elephants fight, the grass gets trampled."
(6) Amnesty International has called on the Egyptian government not to use Barakat’s death “as a pretext for trampling upon human rights”.
(7) "If you want to find out everything that is wrong not only with American but with capitalist culture, it's all in that security guard who got killed on Black Friday" - the man who was trampled to death during the first day of sales at a Long Island branch of Wal-Mart.
(8) The nation faces losing further culturally important works, including Poussin's The Infant Moses trampling Pharaoh's Crown (c1645-6) and a 1641 Van Dyck self-portrait, unless rich benefactors can find £26.5m to save them before temporary export bans run out.
(9) "Right now for all we know because this site is controlled by Russian-backed rebels, right now for all we know bodies remain strewn over the fields of the eastern Ukraine and armed rebels are trampling the site," he said.
(10) Paul argued that the Obama administration had “trampled the constitution” and needed to listen to congressmen such as himself.
(11) They add this appears to be the outcome of a botched late-night drafting process and complete lack of consultation with bloggers, online journalists and social media users, who may now be caught in regulations which trample on grassroots democratic activity and Britain's emerging digital economy.
(12) Egypt's previous worst football incident was in 1974, when 49 people were trampled to death at a match in Cairo.
(13) Garzón was stung by the court's affirmation that he had behaved as if working for a totalitarian regime, fishing indiscriminately for evidence and trampling on defendants' rights by wiretapping jail conversations with defence lawyers.
(14) Trump’s decision to hold a protocol-trampling conversation with Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen last Friday and his subsequent Twitter attacks on China have caused consternation in Beijing .
(15) I decided to speak up for those whose rights were being trampled, to actually use the position society gifted me to say something meaningful, something other than sports cliches.
(16) Here is some reaction to the address: Shaun Walker (@shaunwalker7) Basic line, when it comes down to it: If you trample all over international law, we will too.
(17) But sometimes evasiveness isn't a straightforward matter of wanting to keep out of trouble, or stick up for virtues that are in danger of being trampled.
(18) Zidane had been sent off against Saudi Arabia for trampling on an opponent who, it has been claimed (without confirmation), had aimed racist insults at him.
(19) Some had split open, and ballots had fallen into the mud or the cement floor of the warehouse, where they were being trampled by election workers.
(20) This vast scale has given it an air of an unstoppable behemoth trampling over rivals and across borders.
Tromp
Definition:
(n.) A blowing apparatus, in which air, drawn into the upper part of a vertical tube through side holes by a stream of water within, is carried down with the water into a box or chamber below which it is led to a furnace.
(n.) Alt. of Trompe
Example Sentences:
(1) Tromp made investigations of a weather effect on erythrocyte sedimentation rates (ESR) of human blood by routine checks of the blood of donor groups in Leiden from 1955 to 1985.
(2) This week, Victoria was chatting backstage about the "huge juggling act" of working motherhood, and singing the praises of her trompe l'oeil skirt-and-shirt dresses: "It's great to have something that you can just stand in, zip up and go."
(3) With co-founder Kim Deal having left the band last year, the new album was created by Black Francis, Joey Santiago and David Lovering, with help from long-time producer Gil Norton, who worked on Doolittle, Bossanova and Trompe le Monde.
(4) In contrast, no aggregation of TROMP was present in treponemes incubated in normal rabbit serum for 16 h or in treponemes incubated in IRS for 2 h. These findings suggest that the rate of C activation leading to in vitro treponemicidal activity is limited by the time required for aggregation of antibody-bound TROMP molecules.
(5) An influence of the weather on ESR was also found, but this seems to be more complicated than Tromp supposed.
(6) Playing the stricken Ron Woodruff, in Dallas Buyers Club , McConaughey is reptilian, feverish and emaciated, containing just the element of trompe l’oeil the Academy has learned to consider “acting”.
(7) The Pixies have confirmed details of their first studio album since 1991's Trompe le Monde.
(8) My favourites are a trompe l'oeil elephant on a rock and a giant spindly woman holding a waterfall.
(9) Field and laboratory studies established the development time of all the phases of Oedemagena tarandi and Cephenemyia trompe in different climatic zones of their habitat.
(10) Fruchtman got round this by half-unbricking the walls of the court and hiding the cameras inside, then employing an ingenious trompe-l’oeil system involving reflective white paint and chicken wire.
(11) T. pallidum rare outer membrane protein (TROMP) molecules were shown in freeze-fracture electron micrographs to be consistently aggregated following a 16-h incubation of treponemes in IRS.
(12) The first giant trick is Andrea Pozzo 's trompe l'oeil ceiling fresco which uses foreshortening to create an astoundingly realistic vision of the founder of the Society of Jesus soaring towards paradise to be welcomed by Christ (no, the Jesuits never were modest).
(13) The marines were surrounded by armed men and captured on Sunday after landing near Sirte in a Lynx helicopter that was on board a navy ship, HMS Tromp, which is anchored off the Libyan coast to help evacuations, Dutch defence ministry spokesman Otte Beeksma said.
(14) Photograph: Aitken Jolly for the Observer "Katrantzou can do 'concept'," said Vogue 's Sarah Mower, reviewing her latest collection admiringly, one that veered away from the trompe l'oeil that she's become quietly famous for, and towards prints inspired by fields of tulips and crushed-car sculptures.
(15) Chem., in press] and T. brucei 427 [Hensgens, L.A.M., Brackenhoff, J., De Vries, B.F., Sloof, P., Tromp, M.C., Van Boom, J.H.
(16) On one artists created a witty trompe l'oeil of a suburban street apparently beyond the wall , an optimistic reminder of what the roads used to be like.
(17) "This smacks of over-zealous policemen with little cultural understanding, tromping about the Tate in their hobnail boots, to the cultural deficit of society and this exhibition," Stephens told the Art Newspaper.
(18) The phenological and ecological features of O. tarandi and C. trompe in the aforesaid zones were identified which are the basis for scientifically grounded prophylactic measures.