tramped

verb

past tense of tramp
1
as in shuffled
to move heavily or clumsily tramped wearily up the stairs after a long day at work

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2
as in stomped
to tread on heavily so as to crush or injure didn't mean to tramp your toes as I was running past you

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3
as in strolled
to travel by foot for exercise or pleasure we would have happily tramped through the forest for the rest of the day if it hadn't started to rain

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Recent Examples of tramped The pair’s snow boots tramped the nearly week-old Kansas City snow, two candles clutched in their small hands. — Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 30 Jan. 2026 Virginia Woolf tramped along the Cornish coast; Oliver Sacks was known to swim; Haruki Murakami is an accomplished runner. — Bonnie Tsui, The Atlantic, 20 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tramped
  1. shuffled
  2. stomped
  3. strolled
  4. stumbled
  5. stamped
  6. wandered
  7. walked
  8. sauntered
Verb
  • Sarah was sent to a mental hospital, and the boys were shuffled among family members, ending up with their penniless grandmother in Kentucky.
    — Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 3 July 2026
  • As soon as the game wrapped up, those guests shuffled out, and hours later were replaced by a rowdier group ordering shots at the bar, dancing to 2000s hits in front of the DJ booth and smoking vape pens on the outdoor patio.
    — Katelyn Umholtz, Kansas City Star, 1 July 2026
Definition of shuffled
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  • On Monday night, a 39-year-old man wearing a Spurs jersey was stomped and punched after Game 3 while walking down West 47th Street, about 15 blocks from the arena.
    — Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 14 June 2026
  • It's been 33 years since Jurassic Park first stomped into theaters, and blockbusters haven't been the same since.
    — Huntley Woods, Entertainment Weekly, 11 June 2026
Definition of stomped
Verb
  • Cubans strolled along el Paseo del Prado promenade in the inky night, desperate to escape the stifling heat of their homes.
    — Romina Ruiz-Goiriena, USA Today, 6 July 2026
  • More recently, Amal Clooney strolled through the South of France hand-in-hand with husband George in a black micro-mini with shorts peeking out underneath.
    — Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 4 July 2026
Definition of strolled
Verb
  • The day after the earthquakes, some volunteers stumbled upon a 7-year-old boy named Mateo, shirtless and covered in debris, sitting by himself on a sidewalk in La Guaira.
    — Gisela Salim-Peyer, The Atlantic, 1 July 2026
  • Scientists have stumbled on a rare dinosaur fossil from Antarctica, tucked away for decades in a drawer.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 30 June 2026
Definition of stumbled
Verb
  • Of course, controlling shareholders are not cartons of milk stamped with expiration dates.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 6 July 2026
  • The Derya Arms shotgun was stamped that that it was manufactured in the country of Turkey, according to FBI agents who searched the home.
    — Logan Smith, CBS News, 30 June 2026
Definition of stamped
Verb
  • The 1,200-pound giraffe, named Gracie, wandered away from her unfenced habitat at Cedar Hollow Ranch in Leakey, Texas, on June 12.
    — Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 27 June 2026
  • At the time, the ranch said the giraffe had likely slipped through an enclosure gate and wandered into surrounding private ranchland.
    — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 26 June 2026
Definition of wandered
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  • At the ages of 15 and 12, the brothers walked shoulder-to-shoulder behind their mother Princess Diana's coffin in 1997.
    — Jennifer Hassan, USA Today, 6 July 2026
  • Fairbanks then walked Max Muncy, who moved to second on defensive indifference, and Heim delivered a two-run single.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 6 July 2026
Definition of walked
Verb
  • Hippos surfaced around us, elephants sauntered along the water’s edge, and an African fish eagle called overhead.
    — Sarah Kingdom, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026
  • The Princess Diaries actress proudly sauntered into The Albie Awards with her man on her arm back in 2023.
    — Alexandra Schonfeld, PEOPLE, 19 June 2026
Definition of sauntered

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“Tramped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tramped. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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