name
Meaning 1
A surname from Dutch.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
tromp
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/tɹɒmp/
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noun
Meaning 2
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
Meaning 3
To tread heavily, especially to crush underfoot.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, ambitransitive
Examples
- Mother yelled at my brothers for tromping through her flowerbed.
- The hoodlums were tromping pumpkins they had stolen from their neighbors' Halloween displays.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: march, stamp, stomp, tramp, trample
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
To utterly defeat an opponent.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
Examples
- The team had been tromped by their cross-town rivals, and the players were embarrassed to show their faces in school the next day.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: clobber, decimate, rout, trounce, whip
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch Tromp.
French trombe, trompe, a waterspout, a water-blowing machine. Doublet of trump and tulumba.
1892, variant of tramp.