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Trudge vs Tromp - What's the difference?

trudge | tromp |

As nouns the difference between trudge and tromp

is that trudge is a tramp, ie a long and tiring walk 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.

As verbs the difference between trudge and tromp

is that trudge is to walk wearily with heavy, slow steps while tromp is (chiefly|us) to tread heavily, especially to crush underfoot.

trudge

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A tramp, i.e. a long and tiring walk.
  • Verb

    (trudg)
  • To walk wearily with heavy, slow steps.
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  • This famous archaeological site marks the farthest limit of human migration out of Africa in the middle Stone Age—the outer edge of our knowledge of the cosmos. I trudge to the caves in a squall.
  • To trudge along or over a route etc.
  • Derived terms

    * trudger

    References

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    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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