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tromp¹

  • /tɹɒmp/

Where it comes from

1892, variant of tramp.

verb tromps · tromping · tromped

  1. US, ambitransitive To tread heavily, especially to crush underfoot. Mother yelled at my brothers for tromping through her flowerbed.

    Similar: 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.

    Similar: clobber, decimate, rout, trounce, whip

tromp²

  • /tɹɒmp/

Where it comes from

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

noun tromps · trombe · trompe

  1. 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.

Tromp³

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Dutch Tromp.

proper noun Tromps

  1. A surname from Dutch.

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"tromp." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/tromp. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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tromp. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/tromp

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@misc{tromp_2026,
  title = {tromp},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tromp},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}