champing

verb

present participle of champ
1
as in chewing
to crush or grind with the teeth kept champing a cigar as he barked out orders

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2
as in stomping
to tread on heavily so as to crush or injure watch the horses so they don't champ the flower beds

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Recent Examples of champing With the Philadelphia Phillies, Arizona Diamondbacks and San Diego Padres all champing behind them, wins like Monday’s are welcome. — Johnny Flores Jr, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2026 People are champing at the bit for it. — Steve Metsch, Chicago Tribune, 10 June 2026 Seventy-five percent of all matches will take place on US soil, and soccer fans are champing at the bit. — The Bon Appétit Staff, Bon Appetit Magazine, 9 June 2026 Neither the French nor the Spanish ever invested significantly in colonizing the land west of the upper Mississippi, and Americans were champing at the bit. — Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 31 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for champing
  1. chewing
  2. stomping
  3. stamping
  4. tramping
Verb
  • Tooth enamel is the tough outer coating that shields your teeth from chewing, acids, temperature swings and daily wear.
    — Ryan Brennan, Sacbee.com, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Why tooth enamel can’t grow back Think of enamel as your teeth’s armor, a hard outer shell that protects them from chewing, acids, temperature changes and everyday wear and tear.
    — Ryan Brennan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of chewing
Verb
  • But wrap a play in too much homespun folksiness and the thing starts to feel both suffocating and, despite all the driving tunes and stomping choreography in the world, suffocated.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2026
  • The answer isn’t between stomping the gas pedal or leaving the car parked.
    — Bob Ackerman, Forbes.com, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of stomping
Verb
  • When Louise would remember the show decades later, the audience was always so electric that the room exploded into stamping feet and pounding fists.
    — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026
  • All this suggests that stopping illicit distillation will mean finding new attacks before stamping them out.
    — Peter Hall, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of stamping
Verb
  • Plant-eating dinos that looked like huge, armored lizards left those footprints while tramping near the coastline of a vast Western Interior Seaway that extended into Colorado.
    — Kristen Kidd, Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Imagine The Goonies with a half dozen adults tramping through the caves.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
Definition of tramping

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“Champing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/champing. Accessed 28 Oct. 2026.

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