Defeat vs Tromp - What's the difference?
defeat | tromp |
To overcome in battle or contest.
To reduce, to nothing, the strength of.
* Tillotson
* A. W. Ward
To nullify
* Hallam
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
(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.
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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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)- Wellington defeated Napoleon at Waterloo.
- He finds himself naturally to dread a superior Being that can defeat all his designs, and disappoint all his hopes.
- In one instance he defeated his own purpose.
- The escheators defeated the right heir of his succession.
Synonyms
(To overcome in contest) * beat * conquer * overthrow * rout * vanquishNoun
(en noun)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.}}