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Vinony

tromp

verb

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /tɹɒmp/

name

Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Tromp.

  1. A surname from Dutch.

noun

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

  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.

verb

Etymology: 1892, variant of tramp.

  1. 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.”

  2. 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.”