as in to stomp
to tread on heavily so as to crush or injure
Isabel looked out her window and beheld the neighbor's Labrador retriever trampling her begonias
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Recent Examples of trample
Some fell and were trampled in the stampede.
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Jesse Bedayn, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2025
In the past seven years, no one’s run off with your heart, blown your mind, challenged your identity, or trampled your self-respect.
—James Parker, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2025
Outside what is today a parking garage, a group of Union soldiers — unarmed and asleep in tents — were trampled by horses and murdered by Quantrill’s raiders.
—Quentin Corpuel, Kansas City Star, 6 Sep. 2025
Even the paper’s biggest triumph—which, without giving too much away, brings it into direct conflict with its toilet-paper stablemate—involves a farcically immoral compromise that tramples the church-state divide between news and product sales (and, worse, isn’t all that funny).
—Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2025
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Jesse Bedayn, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2025
In the past seven years, no one’s run off with your heart, blown your mind, challenged your identity, or trampled your self-respect.
—James Parker, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2025
Outside what is today a parking garage, a group of Union soldiers — unarmed and asleep in tents — were trampled by horses and murdered by Quantrill’s raiders.
—Quentin Corpuel, Kansas City Star, 6 Sep. 2025
Even the paper’s biggest triumph—which, without giving too much away, brings it into direct conflict with its toilet-paper stablemate—involves a farcically immoral compromise that tramples the church-state divide between news and product sales (and, worse, isn’t all that funny).
—Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for trample
stomp
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By Dom Luszczyszyn, Sean Gentille and Shayna Goldman Coming into last season, the Washington Capitals had taken major steps to improve a roster that, by plenty of measures, had fluked its way into the postseason and summarily gotten stomped in the first round.—
The Athletic NHL,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
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When the band quickly left before the encore, the elated, yet sweaty, audience clapped their hands and stomped their feet without virtually anyone leaving the building.—
Josh Chesler,
AZCentral.com,
28 Sep. 2025
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“Trample.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trample. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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