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
Reduce compaction by aerating and avoid trampling lawns and garden beds when soils are wet.
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Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 16 Apr. 2026
Iran has trampled citizens’ rights, but should dropping bombs on innocent civilians and school children be the response?
—Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 15 Apr. 2026
After a shooting at Community Park during last year’s Picnic Day that wounded three people and trampled a fourth, the city of Davis is rolling out its most aggressive enforcement plan in years.
—Daniel Hunt, Sacbee.com, 15 Apr. 2026
The push by the county to change the law has been hotly criticized by some advocates who accuse government officials of trampling on victims’ rights.
—Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2026
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Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 16 Apr. 2026
Iran has trampled citizens’ rights, but should dropping bombs on innocent civilians and school children be the response?
—Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 15 Apr. 2026
After a shooting at Community Park during last year’s Picnic Day that wounded three people and trampled a fourth, the city of Davis is rolling out its most aggressive enforcement plan in years.
—Daniel Hunt, Sacbee.com, 15 Apr. 2026
The push by the county to change the law has been hotly criticized by some advocates who accuse government officials of trampling on victims’ rights.
—Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for trample
stomp
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Dedicating that much shelf space to the New York Yankees, as your organization gets stomped into the ground by them, at home?—
Zach Dean OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
23 Apr. 2026
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New surveillance video from inside a Brooklyn liquor store shows another angle of the rough mistaken identity arrest that ignited a firestorm of criticism, offering a different angle as one of the detectives appears to stomp the prone suspect.—
Rocco Parascandola,
New York Daily News,
19 Apr. 2026
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“Trample.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trample. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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