Meaning

noun the sound of heavy treading or stomping

verb tread or stomp heavily or roughly

verb injure by trampling or as if by trampling

originFrom Middle English tramplen, trampelen (“to walk heavily”), equivalent to tramp + -le. Cognate with Saterland Frisian trampelje (“to trample”), Dutch trampelen (“to trample”), German Low German trampeln (“to trample”), German trampeln (“to trample”).

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