stomp on sb/sth
mainly US— phrasal verb with stomp uk/stɒmp/us/stɑːmp/verb
to step down hard on someone or something:
I stomped on his toes and ran away.
to treat someone or something badly, or to defeat him, her, or it:
This is another example of the big companies joining together to stomp on small businesses.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Hitting and beating
- a bunch of fives idiom
- a rap on/over the knuckles idiom
- at-risk
- bang up sb/sth
- bashing
- deck
- hell
- kick
- knock
- knock sb's block off idiom
- lay
- lay sb out
- licking
- mess sb up
- pound
- pummel
- put the boot in idiom
- swing
- thump
- whack
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