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Tromps vs Troops - What's the difference?

tromps | troops |

As verbs the difference between tromps and troops

is that tromps is (tromp) while troops is (troop).

As a noun troops is

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tromps

English

Verb

(head)
  • (tromp)

    • 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.

    • References

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    troops

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • military personnel in uniform
    • There are 10,000 troops in Iraq.

    Synonyms

    * soldiers

    Verb

    (head)
  • (troop)

    • Statistics

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