transitive. To step or walk with pressure on (something) esp. so as to crush, beat down, injure, or destroy it; to trample. Obsolete (except as…

transitive. To tread over; to trample under foot. Also figurative: to crush, oppress, subdue. Now chiefly poetic.

transitive. With adverbial complement, as to tread down, under foot, in the mire, to the ground, to pieces, etc.; to tread to death, to kill by…

transitive. To trample under foot; tread down.

transitive. To tread under foot, trample down.

transitive. To trample down, trample upon.

transitive. To trample (something); to tread (something) down. Also figurative.

transitive. To trample on; to injure, destroy; to defeat, overcome. Cf. foil, v.1

transitive. To tread upon. Cf. overgang, v. 2. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To tread heavily and (esp.) injuriously upon; to crush, break down, or destroy by heavy treading; also to trample down, to trample unde…

transitive. To press or compress by treading; to tread or trample upon.

transitive. To tread under foot, trample upon.

intransitive with on, upon, over. literal. To tread repeatedly upon with heavy or crushing steps. Also in indirect passive.

transitive. To trample over or upon; to tread down. Also figurative.

intransitive. To tread heavily or with force (on or upon something); to stamp (upon): = trample, v. 3 to tramp on any one's toes (figurative), to…

To tread upon, trample, press with the feet.

transitive. = stramp, v. 2.

transitive. To trample or stamp under the heel.

To crush, tread crushingly upon; also, to squeeze into small compass; = crunch, v. 2.