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tromping

tromping is the present participle and gerund of tromp.

Meaning of tromp

Verb

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

  1. (US, ambitransitive) To tread heavily, especially to crush underfoot.
    • Mother yelled at my brothers for tromping through her flowerbed.
    Synonyms:
    march, stamp, stomp, tramp, trample
  2. (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.

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Questions about tromping

What is tromping the present participle and gerund of?
Tromping is the present participle and gerund of tromp.

Words near tromping in the dictionary

  1. trompement
  2. trompements
  3. trompes
  4. Trompette Militaire
  5. Trompetter
  6. tromping
  7. trompong
  8. trompongs
  9. tromps
  10. Troms
  11. Troms og Finnmark

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tromping (page history and authors); tromp (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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