tromp.
To tread heavily, especially to crush underfoot.
Meaning & usage
To tread heavily, especially to crush underfoot.
Mother yelled at my brothers for tromping through her flowerbed.
The hoodlums were tromping pumpkins they had stolen from their neighbors' Halloween displays.
To utterly defeat an opponent.
The team had been tromped by their cross-town rivals, and the players were embarrassed to show their faces in school the next day.
Where this word comes from
1892, variant of tramp.
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.
Where this word comes from
French trombe, trompe, a waterspout, a water-blowing machine. Doublet of trump and tulumba.
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