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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It’s been more than a year since Ozzy Osbourne shuffled off this mortal coil.

— Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 26 Oct. 2026
There will more players shuffled off the roster — such as free agents Jonathan India and Luke Maile, among others.

— Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of shuffled

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There is a complimentary personalization service, and each piece can be gold-stamped with up to three initials.

— Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 22 Oct. 2026
Instead, his team developed SynthID, an imperceptible, incorruptible digital watermark now stamped to anything generated by Google AI, but also OpenAI, Nvidia, Kakao, and, soon, Apple.

— Daniel Varghese, Time, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of stamped

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Williams stumbled backward and circled both arms backward as Avdija kicked the ball out to Lillard for a three-pointer.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026
An Egyptian farmer tending to his cucumbers stumbled upon an ancient stone that led archaeologists to a much bigger discovery.

— Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 28 Oct. 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

Definition of trampled

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The Proffers were in Brodsky’s room again, in 1972, only a few months after founding Ardis, when the Soviet government called the poet and, in preparation for President Nixon’s visit, kicked him out of the country.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2026
Punter Ethan Evans kicked an extra point that put the Rams ahead, 17-15, with less than a minute remaining before the Cardinals kicked a winning field goal.

— Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 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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But with a last throw of the dice, Tino Martinez smashed a two-run homer to level the contest, sending the game to extra innings and the World Series into its first November action.

— Don Riddell, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2026
Shattered glass littered sidewalks after rioters smashed and looted thousands of shops, torched cars and buildings, and attacked police, who fired tear gas and water cannons.

— The Week US, TheWeek, 26 Oct. 2026

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