Meaning

(chiefly US, ambitransitive) To tread heavily, especially to crush underfoot..

Definitions by Sense

1. (chiefly US, ambitransitive) To tread heavily, especially to crush underfoot.
2. (informal) To utterly defeat an opponent.
3. An apparatus in which air, drawn into the upper part of a vertical tube through side holes by a stream of water within, is carried down with the water into a box or chamber below which it is led to a furnace or gathers to generate compressed air.

Example Sentences

Mother yelled at my brothers for tromping through her flowerbed.

The hoodlums were tromping pumpkins they had stolen from their neighbors' Halloween displays.

He lifted one foot and set it down again, whammo, but Ed was so engrossed in Pynchon's novel that all he recalls is tromping the scorpion to death with his stung foot, then quickly fetching a bucket of ice water, jamming the foot into it, and continuing to read.

Six groups of cocaleros had tromped through the campsite overnight.

BLACK KNIGHT TROMPED MOODILY THROUGH THE PLAINS. JUSTICE WOULD PREVAIL, IN THE END. AT LEAST HE'D ESCAPED THE MIRROR OF FATE.

The team had been tromped by their cross-town rivals, and the players were embarrassed to show their faces in school the next day.

Word Forms

• tromps
• tromping
• tromped
• trombe
• trompe

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Use tromp when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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