trample
Example Sentences
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But urbanisation has seen encroachment onto these age-old grazing routes and locals accuse the Fulani of letting their cattle trample their crops and forcing them out of their homes and fields.
From BBC
Partly because I hate and fear crowds, having once been knocked to the ground and trampled while lining up to buy tickets to see The Doors in 1968.
“Since I last spoke in this building, the scourge of war is back in Europe,” he said, adding that “freedom and human dignity have been trampled in the most brutal way.”
From New York Times
It has left freedom and human dignity "trampled in the most brutal way", he told the chamber.
From BBC
Others trample or eat the vegetation that would otherwise rob those trees of space and nutrients.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
