ppl. a. [f. TRAMPLE v. + -ED1.] Beaten down or crushed by trampling; also fig. down-trodden, oppressed.

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c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 499/1. Tramplyd, tritus.

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1592.  Arden of Feversham, IV. i. 3. The trampled pace Wherein he wount to guide his golden car.

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a. 1764.  Lloyd, trans. Henriade, Poet. Wks. 1774, II. 223. The trampled Law had lost its ancient force.

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1842.  Tennyson, Locksley Hall, 156. I was left a trampled orphan, and a selfish uncle’s ward.

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