Thesaurus results for TRAMPLED

trampled

verb

past tense of trample

as in stomped

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 trampled When our First Amendment rights are trampled, when politicians in both parties put their thumbs on the scale through gerrymandering, our republic is damaged. —

Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2026 While one of the caretakers, Sreekuttan, suffered chest injuries from being trampled and died at a nearby hospital, a second caretaker, Amal, sustained injuries and continues to receive medical care. —

Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 3 May 2026 This is something that Black voting-rights advocates, from Frederick Douglass to Kwame Ture, long understood; that no person’s rights could really be inalienable if any person’s rights were trampled. —

Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 2 May 2026 Instead, he got trampled by the crowd. —

Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 2 May 2026 His plan also trampled another key provision, the requirement that districts be compact. —

Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 May 2026 Ernie Dosio, a 75-year-old California vineyard owner and longtime big-game hunter, was trampled to death by a herd of elephants while on a $40,000 hunting trip in Central Africa. —

Ryan Brennan april 28, Miami Herald, 28 Apr. 2026 Ernie Dosio, a 75-year-old California vineyard owner and longtime big game hunter, was trampled to death by a herd of elephants during a hunting trip in Gabon, Central Africa. —

Ryan Brennan april 28, Sacbee.com, 28 Apr. 2026 What was trashed and trampled had the potential to grow into thousands of pounds of food. —

Juli McDonald, CBS News, 16 Apr. 2026

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Grgich stomped grapes at age 3.

— Mark Dent, HubSpot, 15 May 2026
International researchers have officially identified Nagatitan chaiyaphumensis, a massive dinosaur that has stomped its way into the record books as the largest ever found in Southeast Asia.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 14 May 2026