trampling
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English[edit]
Verb[edit]
trampling
- present participle and gerund of trample
Noun[edit]
trampling (countable and uncountable, plural tramplings)
- The act of trampling someone or something, an instance of trampling.
- 1896, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc:
- The awfulest thing was the silence; there wasn't a sound but the screaking of the saddles, the measured tramplings, and the sneezing of the horses, afflicted by the smothering dust-clouds which they kicked up.
Synonyms[edit]
- calcation (rare)
Translations[edit]
the act of stamping, stomping or tramping on something
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