trample

Etymology

From Middle English trample, from tramp + -le (frequentative). Attested in the original sense 'walk heavily' since early 14th century.

verb

1. (transitive) To crush something by walking on it.
   to trample grass or flowers
   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. 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess
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.

noun

1. A heavy stepping.
   Newly harvested grapes are poured into a vast vat for everyone to have a good trample upon […] 2015, Lucy Corne, Josephine Quintero, Lonely Planet Canary Islands
2. The sound of heavy footsteps.