dilodi83
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My question is: Are these two verbs, to stamp on and to step on similar in their meanings in sentences like the ones below?
1) There was a huge spider in the washroom and the boss just stamped on it and that was the end of the spider!
2) I saw a dreadful spider in the kitchen and all of a sudden my father walked in and stepped on it.
Now, Do they express the same action or in the first one "to stamp on" means that somebody put his foot on it intensionally because he wanted to knock it off, whereas in the second sentence "to step on" means that someone put his foot on the spider accidentaly and he killed it by chance, without having planned on doing it?
If there are any differences between the two verbs, can you explain them to me?
Thank you very much.
1) There was a huge spider in the washroom and the boss just stamped on it and that was the end of the spider!
2) I saw a dreadful spider in the kitchen and all of a sudden my father walked in and stepped on it.
Now, Do they express the same action or in the first one "to stamp on" means that somebody put his foot on it intensionally because he wanted to knock it off, whereas in the second sentence "to step on" means that someone put his foot on the spider accidentaly and he killed it by chance, without having planned on doing it?
If there are any differences between the two verbs, can you explain them to me?
Thank you very much.