Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To walk heavily and noisily; tramp.
- intransitive verb To apply heavy foot pressure on something.
- intransitive verb To trample underfoot.
- intransitive verb To defeat soundly; trounce.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Obsolete forms of
trump .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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.
- noun obsolete A trumpet; a trump.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
tread heavily , especially tocrush underfoot . - verb To
utterly defeat an opponent. - noun A
blowing apparatus in whichair , drawn into the upper part of avertical 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 afurnace .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Next came the flashing of Hiram’s lantern, and the _tromp, tromp, tromp_, in much quicker tempo than usual, of Hiram’s heavy boots.
More Jonathan Papers Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris 1917
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Even though I owned a copy of the movie on DVD, I was eager to tromp out in the rain and check out the film once more.
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I am a spinner boy, but if I do bait I love to tromp around the stream and find whatever is crawling around and that tops any store bought bait.
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I am a spinner boy, but if I do bait I love to tromp around the stream and find whatever is crawling around and that tops any store bought bait.
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From within the sanctum came the tromp of Bigs and the scratch of talons and the skitter of claws.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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From within the sanctum came the tromp of Bigs and the scratch of talons and the skitter of claws.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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Across the street, two houses over, they tromp across the dead grass at the Martin place and, with their heads nervously on the lookout, sneak through the side gate.
Hopefulness 2010
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Across the street, two houses over, they tromp across the dead grass at the Martin place and, with their heads nervously on the lookout, sneak through the side gate.
Hopefulness 2010
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"With no refusal, you don't have to go tromp down to the police station and then to a judge's house and then to a hospital, because you have everyone in one central location," said Warren Diepraam, a prosecutor in Montgomery County, north of Houston, which has a no-refusal campaign in place from Thanksgiving through New Year's.
Texas Blood Test Aims at Drunk Drivers Nathan Koppel 2011
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From within the sanctum came the tromp of Bigs and the scratch of talons and the skitter of claws.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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