Thesaurus results for TRAMPLING

trampling

verb

present participle of trample

as in stomping

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 trampling The 307-mile Great Redwood Trail planned along a defunct Northern California rail line is colliding with the Wailaki tribe, as members decry hikers trampling ancestral villages and graves. — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026 Their biggest obstacle is that their collectivist vision has never worked without trampling on civil liberties. — Nolan Finley The Detroit News, Arkansas Online, 9 Sep. 2026 Meanwhile, a company has developed surf booties that claim to be barb-resistant — though swimmers are urged to still tread lightly to avoid trampling the rays. — ABC News, 13 Aug. 2026 The bull lived up to his reputation, bucking Dias off before trampling him in the dirt in five seconds. — Kansas City Star, 23 July 2026 Tis hard to see the mighty prancing war horse, trampling the dying and dead beneath their merciless feet. — Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026 Between the crew walking around to perform the work and branches that fall on your garden, there’s a higher risk of trampling on perennials if the work is done during the growing season. — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2026 During the season from March to October, the shoreline is pockmarked with turtle nests that are roped off with pink tape to keep beachgoers from unknowingly trampling them. — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 17 June 2026 Last year, visitors were documented throwing rocks at nesting birds and trampling nesting areas. — Letters To The Editor, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 May 2026

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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

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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

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