Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tromp

/tɹɒmp/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.06 in modern English

Syllables: tromp
IPA: /tɹɒmp/

9

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To tread heavily, especially to crush underfoot.

American usage

verb

To utterly defeat an opponent.

Informal

noun

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.

name

A surname from Dutch.

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."

Etymology

1892, variant of tramp.

Usage

American usage
Informal

Inflected Forms

tromps (present, singular) tromping (participle, present) tromped (participle, past) tromped (past) tromps (plural) trombe (alternative) trompe (alternative)

Synonyms

march stamp stomp tramp trample clobber decimate rout trounce whip

Rhymes With

comp swamp stomp pomp romp chomp duchamp klomp

Questions

How do you pronounce tromp?: The recorded pronunciation is /tɹɒmp/.
What does tromp mean?: To tread heavily, especially to crush underfoot.
Where does tromp come from?: 1892, variant of tramp.

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