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Tmn111 Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Which one is the most natural?

How to describe the situation in which you put your foot on an insect or a bug in order to kill it?

I trampled an insect.
I stepped on an insect.
I crushed an insect?

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Top answer

"Stepped on " sounds accidental, but it is effective. ) "Crushed" is OK. Informally: I smashed the bug.

— AlpheccaStars

  • "Stepped on " sounds accidental, but it is effective.
  • ) "Crushed" is OK.
  • Informally: I smashed the bug.
  • I squashed that bug.
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"Stepped on " sounds accidental, but it is effective.
"trampled" is used for grass or vegetation (It does not kill.)
"Crushed" is OK.

Informally:

I smashed the bug.
I squashed that bug.
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AlpheccaStars"trampled" is used for grass or vegetation (It does not kill.)

Actually, I believe that trampled is used in cases like "the runner was trampled to death during the running of the bulls". It does, however, imply a larger scale (either by weight or by number), and certainly wouldn't be used in the instance proposed by the original
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