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Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“trampled” is a form of

trample

/ˈtɹæmpəl/ verb, noun

Forms tramples trampling trampled

  1. verb (transitive) To crush something by walking on it. “to trample grass or flowers”
  2. verb (by extension) To treat someone harshly.
  3. verb (intransitive) To walk heavily and destructively.
  4. verb (by extension) To cause emotional injury as if by trampling.
  5. noun A heavy stepping.
  6. noun The sound of heavy footsteps.

Synonyms

tread calcate trampling tramp down tread down

Etymology

From Middle English tramplen, trampelen (“to walk heavily”), equivalent to tramp + -le. Cognate with Saterland Frisian trampelje (“to trample”), Dutch trampelen (“to trample”), German Low German trampeln (“to trample”), German trampeln (“to trample”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To tread under foot; to tread down; to prostrate by treading; as, to trample grass or flowers. Dryden.
  2. verb Fig.: To treat with contempt and insult. Cowper.
  3. verb To tread with force and rapidity; to stamp.
  4. verb To tread in contempt; --with on or upon.

Etymology [OE. trampelen, freq. of trampen. See Tramp, v. t.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “trample”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “trample” (best matches first).

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