Tromp is a synonym of stomp.
As verbs the difference between stomp and tromp
is that stomp is to trample heavily while tromp is to tread heavily, especially to crush underfoot.
As nouns the difference between stomp and tromp
is that stomp is a dance having a heavy, rhythmic step 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.
stomp
English
Verb
(
en verb)
(ambitransitive) To trample heavily.
(slang) To severely beat someone physically or figuratively.
Synonyms
(To severely beat someone) crush
Noun
(
en noun)
A dance having a heavy, rhythmic step.
The jazz music for this dance.
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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