Definition

1. Verb:
   • To trample upon: To step or walk heavily on something, often causing damage or destruction, typically used metaphorically to mean treating someone's rights, feelings, or dignity with contempt and disrespect.
   • To crush underfoot: To treat something as worthless by ignoring or violating it completely.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Họ giẫm đạp lên quyền lợi của người khác. (They trample upon the rights of others.)
  • Không được giẫm đạp lên lòng tự trọng của người khác. (One must not trample upon the self-respect of others.)
  • Chế độ đó giẫm đạp lên tự do cá nhân. (That regime tramples upon individual freedom.)

Advanced Usage

• The term is almost exclusively used in a figurative, negative sense to describe severe moral or ethical violation, not a literal physical action.
• It implies a deliberate, arrogant, or cruel act of disregard, often by someone in a position of power.

Variants and Related Words

• Chà đạp (v): A very close synonym, also meaning to trample or oppress.
  • Bị chà đạp về nhân phẩm. (To have one's dignity trampled.)
• Giày xéo (v): To trample, crush underfoot; often used interchangeably with in figurative contexts.
  • Giày xéo lên ước mơ của người khác. (To trample on someone else's dreams.)

Synonyms

• Trample (upon): To treat with contemptuous disregard.
• Violate: To break or fail to comply with (a rule or formal agreement), especially pertaining to rights.
• Crush: To defeat or subdue completely in a way that shows no respect.
• Oppress: To keep in subservience and hardship, especially by the unjust exercise of authority.

Related Idioms

• Giẫm đạp lên lương tâm: To trample upon one's conscience; to act against one's moral principles.
  • Anh ta đã giẫm đạp lên lương tâm để làm giàu. (He trampled upon his conscience to get rich.)
• Giẫm đạp lên nhau mà sống: To live by trampling on each other; describing a ruthless, dog-eat-dog social environment.
  • Trong thế giới cạnh tranh đó, họ giẫm đạp lên nhau mà sống. (In that competitive world, they live by trampling on each other.)

1. Trample upon
   • Giẫm đạp lên quyền lợi của người khác
     To trample upon others'interests