tromp
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tromp (third-person singular simple present tromps, present participle tromping, simple past and past participle tromped)
- (chiefly US) 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.
- 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.
[edit] Synonyms
- (tread heavily): march, stamp, stomp, tramp, trample
- (utterly defeat): clobber, decimate, rout, whip
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[edit] Noun
tromp n.
