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stomping

verb , present participle of stomp

Synonyms and Antonyms of stomping

1 to move heavily or clumsily

came stomping up the stairs and tossed her backpack on the bed

Synonyms of stomping

barging, clumping, flogging [British], floundering, galumphing, lumbering, lumping, plodding, pounding, scuffing, scuffling, shambling, shuffling, slogging, sloughing, stamping, stumbling, stumping, tramping, tromping, trudging

Words Related to stomping

dragging, flopping, hauling

blundering, careening, doddering, lurching, reeling, staggering, swaying, teetering, tottering, waddling, weaving, wobbling (also wabbling)

Near Antonyms of stomping

drifting, floating, hanging, hovering, poising, wafting

Antonyms of stomping

breezing, coasting, gliding, sliding, waltzing, whisking

2 to tread on heavily so as to crush or injure

stomping the burning leaves in a vain attempt to put out the fire

Synonyms of stomping

champing, stamping, tramping, trampling, tromping

Words Related to stomping

overriding, running down, running over, stepping (on)

mashing, pulping, smashing, squashing, squelching

booting, hoofing, kicking

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