Tromped vs Trouped - What's the difference?
tromped | trouped |
(tromp)
(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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(troupe)
A company of, often touring, actors, singers or dancers.
Any group of people working together on a shared activity.
To tour with a troupe.
