tromp

/tɹɒmp/

tromp verb: to tread heavily, especially to crush underfoot.

Verb

tromp (third-person singular simple present tromps, present participle tromping, simple past and past participle tromped)

(US, ambitransitive) 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.
Synonyms:

march, stamp, stomp, tramp, trample
(informal) 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.
Synonyms:

clobber, decimate, rout, trounce, whip

tromp (plural tromps)

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.

Tromp (plural Tromps)

ஊதுலையடுப்பு

Six groups of cocaleros had tromped through the campsite overnight.2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, chapter 8, in The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Henry Holt and Company:
BLACK KNIGHT TROMPED MOODILY THROUGH THE PLAINS.2019 December 10, Yacht Club Games, "Story" (Black Knight), in Shovel Knight Showdown (version 4.1), Nintendo Switch, scene: ending

Verb
third-person singular present	tromps
present participle	tromping
past participle	tromped
past	tromped
Noun
plural	tromps
alternative form	trombe
alternative form	trompe
Proper noun
plural	Tromps

1892, variant of tramp.

French trombe, trompe, a waterspout, a water-blowing machine. Doublet of trump and tulumba.

Borrowed from Dutch Tromp.

What does tromp mean?: Tromp means to tread heavily, especially to crush underfoot.
What is tromp in Tamil?: Tromp in Tamil is ஊதுலையடுப்பு. See Tromp meaning in Tamil.
How do you use tromp in a sentence?: Six groups of cocaleros had tromped through the campsite overnight.
What part of speech is tromp?: Tromp can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce tromp?: Tromp is pronounced /tɹɒmp/.
What is the past tense of tromp?: The past tense of tromp is tromped.

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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