Tromp meaning

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To walk heavily and noisily; tramp.
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To apply heavy foot pressure on something.

Tromped on the accelerator and sped off.

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To trample underfoot.
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To defeat soundly; trounce.
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(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.

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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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A blowing 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.
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Origin of tromp

  • Variant of tramp

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • French trombe, trompe, a waterspout, a water-blowing machine. Compare trump, a trumpet.

    From Wiktionary

  • 1892, variant of tramp.

    From Wiktionary

Tromp Sentence Examples

  • War was declared in May 1652 after a fight between Blake and Tromp off Dover, and was continued with signal victories and defeats on both sides till 1654.

  • The Dutch acknowledged the supremacyof the English flag in the British seas, which Tromp had before refused; they accepted the Navigation Act, and undertook privately to exclude the princes of Orange from the command of their forces.

  • Brielle is the birthplace of the famous admiral Martin van Tromp, and also of Admiral van Almonde, a distinguished commander of the early 18th century.

  • In May forty sail of their war-ships appeared off Dover under command of Martin Harpertzoon Tromp - then the best known of their admirals.

  • Blake came into the Straits of Dover with his ships, and on the 19th of May a sharp collision took place between him and Tromp. Bourne joined his countryman after the action began.

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