To tread under foot; to tread down; to prostrate by treading; as, to trample grass or flowers
injure by trampling or as if by trampling; "The passerby was trampled by an elephant
If someone is trampled, they are injured or killed by being stepped on by animals or by other people. Many people were trampled in the panic that followed
the sound of heavy treading or stomping; "he heard the trample of many feet" injure by trampling or as if by trampling; "The passerby was trampled by an elephant
If someone tramples something or tramples on it, they step heavily and carelessly on it and damage it. They don't want people trampling the grass, pitching tents or building fires Please don't trample on the azaleas
To trample on someone's rights or values or to trample them means to deliberately ignore them. They say loggers are destroying rain forests and trampling on the rights of natives Diplomats denounced the leaders for trampling their citizens' civil rights