What is the meaning of trampling?

noun

• The sound of heavy treading or stomping.
  • usage: "he heard the trample of many feet"
  • synonyms: trample

verb

• Tread or stomp heavily or roughly.
  • usage: "The soldiers trampled across the fields"
  • synonyms: tread, trample
• Injure by trampling or as if by trampling.
  • usage: "The passerby was trampled by an elephant"
  • synonyms: trample
• Walk on and flatten.
  • usage: "tramp down the grass"; "trample the flowers"
  • synonyms: tramp down, trample, tread down