Synonyms:
trample, trampling
Meaning: the sound of heavy treading or stomping; "he heard the trample of many feet"
Usage examples
If the men were advancing, their indifferent feet were trampling upon his chances for a successful life.
"Those blocks which you are trampling under foot, like worthless stones, contain gold-ore of great purity."
I would make use of words more grievous still; Because your avarice afflicts the world, Trampling the good and lifting the depraved.
"No!--so far as Socialism means a political system--the trampling out of private enterprise and competition, and all the rest of it--I find myself slipping away from it more and more.
It climbs to God by trampling on Man, it builds Heaven in contempt of Earth, its soul is a phosphorescence from the slain and rotting Body; its fervent faith vilifies us worse than the coldest sneer of Mephistopheles.