intransitive verb. To beat down with the feet so as to crush, bruise, or destroy; tramp on.

intransitive verb. To treat harshly or ruthlessly.

intransitive verb. To tread heavily or destructively.

intransitive verb. To inflict injury as if by treading heavily.

noun. The action or sound of trampling.

noun. A frequent heavy or rough tread; a trampling.

To beat or tread down by the tramping or stamping of feet, or by frequent treading; prostrate or crush by treading under foot; tread upon or tread down, literally or figuratively.

To tread with repeated force and shock; stamp; hence, to tramp roughshod; tread roughly or contemptuously.

noun. The act of treading under foot; also, the sound produced by trampling.

intransitive verb. To tread with force and rapidity; to stamp.

intransitive verb. To tread in contempt; -- with on or upon.

transitive verb. To tread under foot; to tread down; to prostrate by treading.

transitive verb. Fig.: To treat with contempt and insult.

verb. To crush and destroy something by walking on it.

verb. To treat someone harshly.

verb. To walk heavily and destructively.

verb. To cause emotional injury as if by trampling.

noun. the sound of heavy footsteps

verb. walk on and flatten

verb. tread or stomp heavily or roughly

verb. injure by trampling or as if by trampling

noun. the sound of heavy treading or stomping

"Lisa Madigan, who is the political combine's best hope in 2010 to keep the cycle of old-style politics going, takes money from lobbyists and cronies as she works as the state's chief legal officer and says the reason she has knowingly ignored the violation of state laws by her fellow politicians is because she might "trample" on what the Feds "might do someday.""

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