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
But while that decision − Ginsberg v. New York − focused on the rights of minors, the court’s 2004 decision – Ashcroft v. ACLU – turned on whether adults’ rights were trampled in the process of protecting minors.
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Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 28 June 2025
The Maryland Piedmont Reliability Project land grab is another example of the citizens being completely trampled upon by the institutions that bought your politicians off.
—Christopher Eric Bouchat, Baltimore Sun, 29 July 2025
The very institution created to enforce the law is trampling over the civil service laws enacted by Congress.
—Amalia Huot-Marchand, The Hill, 25 July 2025
Since their March crackup over whether to accept Republicans’ government funding bill, Democrats have gotten repeatedly trampled by their opponents’ partisan power plays on tax cuts, spending cuts, and rolling back Biden-era regulations.
—Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 22 July 2025
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Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 28 June 2025
The Maryland Piedmont Reliability Project land grab is another example of the citizens being completely trampled upon by the institutions that bought your politicians off.
—Christopher Eric Bouchat, Baltimore Sun, 29 July 2025
The very institution created to enforce the law is trampling over the civil service laws enacted by Congress.
—Amalia Huot-Marchand, The Hill, 25 July 2025
Since their March crackup over whether to accept Republicans’ government funding bill, Democrats have gotten repeatedly trampled by their opponents’ partisan power plays on tax cuts, spending cuts, and rolling back Biden-era regulations.
—Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 22 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for trample
stomp
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At that event, Claudio Castagnoli stomped Ospreay's head through a steel chair.—
Andrew Ravens,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Aug. 2025
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The Wildcats won five in a row against the Cardinals before getting stomped 41-14 last year in Lexington.—
Marc Weiszer,
The Tennessean,
19 Aug. 2025
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“Trample.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trample. Accessed 28 Aug. 2025.
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