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Defeat vs Tromp - What's the difference?

defeat | tromp |

As verbs the difference between defeat and tromp

is that defeat is to overcome in battle or contest while tromp is (chiefly|us) to tread heavily, especially to crush underfoot.

As nouns the difference between defeat and tromp

is that defeat is the act of defeating or being defeated while tromp is 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.

defeat

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To overcome in battle or contest.
  • Wellington defeated Napoleon at Waterloo.
  • To reduce, to nothing, the strength of.
  • * Tillotson
  • He finds himself naturally to dread a superior Being that can defeat all his designs, and disappoint all his hopes.
  • * A. W. Ward
  • In one instance he defeated his own purpose.
  • To nullify
  • * Hallam
  • The escheators defeated the right heir of his succession.

    Synonyms

    (To overcome in contest) * beat * conquer * overthrow * rout * vanquish

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of defeating or being defeated.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=May 13 , author=Alistair Magowan , title=Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Two defeats in five games coming into this contest, and a draw with Everton, ultimately cost Sir Alex Ferguson's side in what became the most extraordinary finale to the league championship since Arsenal beat Liverpool at Anfield in 1989.}}

    tromp

    English

    Etymology 1

    1892, variant of (tramp).

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (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.
  • Synonyms
    * (tread heavily) march, stamp, stomp, tramp, trample * (utterly defeat) clobber, decimate, rout, whip

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) trombe, trompe, a waterspout, a water-blowing machine. Compare trump, a trumpet.

    Alternative forms

    * trombe, trompe

    Noun

    (en 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.
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