trampled
adj.adj. crushed or flattened because something heavy, like a person or animal, stepped on it. You use this to describe grass, flowers, or even people's rights when they are ignored.
adj. crushed, flattened, or damaged by being stepped on heavily. Often used figuratively to describe rights or feelings that have been disregarded or suppressed.
The flowers were trampled after the crowd ran through the garden.
The hikers tried to stay on the path to avoid leaving the delicate mountain grass trampled and dying.
The protest was not merely about the new law, but about the feeling that their fundamental civil liberties had been trampled by an indifferent administration for decades.
Often follows a linking verb like 'look' or 'seem', or appears as a participial adjective before a noun.