You describe something as being underfoot when you are standing or walking on it.
...a room, high and square with carpet underfoot and tapestries on the walls.
It was still wet underfoot.
2. adverb [ADVERB after verb]
If you trample or crush something underfoot, you spoil or destroy it by stepping on it.
...a mobile phone that has been crushed underfoot.
...half-ripe apples that were being trampled underfoot.
underfoot in British English
(ˌʌndəˈfʊt)
adverb
1.
underneath the feet; on the ground
2.
in a position of subjugation or subservience
3.
in the way
underfoot in American English
(ˌʌndərˈfʊt)
adverb, adjective
1.
under the foot or feet
to trample flowers underfoot
2. US
in the way, as of one walking
Examples of 'underfoot' in a sentence
underfoot
The thud of artillery shook sandy ground underfoot.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
The victims of the crush were pushed against the walls or trampled underfoot.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Or would she trample it underfoot in the slush where our love lay?
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
It will be thrown out and trampled underfoot as worthless.
Christianity Today (2000)
Anybody who stood in his path was trampled underfoot.
The Sun (2015)
Injuries may have been caused by people panicking and crushing others underfoot in their rush to leave buildings.
Pearson, Althea Growing Through Loss and Grief (1994)
International law has been trampled underfoot.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Many objects had been swept off the shelves or emptied out of boxes, and then trampled underfoot.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
A knight of the realm was trampled underfoot.
The Sun (2014)
A man is being trampled underfoot.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Favourite pieces - dear friends - are trampled underfoot.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Clothes were trampled underfoot, first-aid kits had been ripped open and their contents thrown across the lawn.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Their CVs are torn apart, their grandiose claims are punctured and their numbers are first crunched then ground underfoot.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The taste buds of humans can change significantly over the years and, similarly, the preferences that horses have for underfoot ground conditions can also alter.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
To see their team go down without a fight, to see the good name of their club trampled underfoot, to see the game laughing at them.