STOMPED Synonyms: 64 Similar and Opposite Words

stomped

verb

past tense of stomp

as in shuffled

to move heavily or clumsily came stomping up the stairs and tossed her backpack on the bed

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as in stamped

to tread on heavily so as to crush or injure stomping the burning leaves in a vain attempt to put out the fire

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Recent Examples of stomped This year, the party headed to Los Angeles, where all your favorite models — and then some — stomped the runway in lace, lace and more lace. — Hedy Phillips, PEOPLE, 19 Oct. 2026 McColley pushed Parente out onto the street and stomped his boot in the victim’s face five times, crushing Parente’s head into the pavement before fleecing his pockets and fleeing, according to the criminal complaint. — Rebecca White, New York Daily News, 13 Oct. 2026 Letter writers recalled how Paden saved his father’s life when a cow nearly stomped him to death in a field, after the elder Paden came between the cow and her calf. — Glenn Rice, Kansas City Star, 21 Sep. 2026 The Bulldogs visit Arkansas, which just got stomped by Utah, to open SEC play Saturday. — Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 14 Sep. 2026 Even when stomped into the mud by a 17,500-pound apex predator, dinosaur footprints rarely last long enough to fossilize over millions of years. — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 9 Sep. 2026 As Flores was still celebrating, Bjornsson — the previous deadlift world-record holder (510kg) — stomped up to him and reached out to grasp his rival, but only to offer a congratulatory hug of genuine warmth and affection. — Rob Tanner, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026 The man in the footage stomped the adult duck and then stood on the animal. — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2026 The way Brooks stomped, or glided, or moseyed into the end zone will be forgotten. — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 22 Aug. 2026

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On the day of disembarkation, shuttle buses pulled up alongside the Odyssey and passengers shuffled out.

— Shayla Love, New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2026
That said, moving off Nikola’s money certainly could/should be a Heat consideration at some point, with Jovic shuffled out of the rotation Wednesday night against the Clippers.

— Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of shuffled

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The structure uses thin sheets of nickel-titanium (NiTi), a shape-memory alloy, stamped into porous chips and stacked to form a tubular refrigerant unit.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 7 Nov. 2026
Consumer product packaging could only be stamped with the chasing arrows recycling symbol if at least 60% of consumers have access to recycling programs that accept the product.

— Lisa Song, ProPublica, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of stamped

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Despite massive searches, his whereabouts remained a mystery until June of that year when a group of local hikers stumbled upon a boot, some bones and a driver’s license with a familiar face.

— Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2026
Gunn and Safran started off with the successful launch of a new Superman movie last year but then stumbled big with Supergirl, a critical and commercial bomb.

— Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 9 Nov. 2026

Definition of stumbled

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Video footage also showed people being trampled and hit with batons as officers traveled on horseback.

— David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026
Philbrick, a seasoned and popular chronicler of the American past, is equally concerned with those who got trampled by the rush as with those who rode it to astonishing heights of wealth and influence.

— Richard Kreitner, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2026

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Joziah Medina had a 40-yard touchdown run and Nathan Swann kicked a 25-yard field goal.

— Chris Hays, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 Nov. 2026
Ashton Daniels passed for 163 yards, Gabe Panikowski kicked three field goals, and Florida State's defense did the rest as the Seminoles edged Pittsburgh 16-10 on Friday night.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 Nov. 2026

Definition of kicked

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Days or weeks passed, but then the dog barked, the mail carrier tramped onto the porch, the mailbox clattered.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 July 2026
The pair’s snow boots tramped the nearly week-old Kansas City snow, two candles clutched in their small hands.

— Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 30 Jan. 2026

Definition of tramped

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When they were smashed into molecules consisting of two ordinary hydrogen atoms, the muonic atoms implanted themselves within those molecules and assimilated one of their hydrogens.

— George Musser, Quanta Magazine, 2 Nov. 2026
In Frankfurt, police said Molotov cocktails were thrown at emergency personnel and shop windows were smashed.

— Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 1 Nov. 2026

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