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tromp

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verb

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The correct spelling is tromp. To tread heavily, especially to crush underfoot. For example: "Mother yelled at my brothers for tromping through her flowerbed."

Usage Examples

Mother yelled at my brothers for tromping through her flowerbed.

The team had been tromped by their cross-town rivals, and the players were embarrassed to show their faces in school the next day.

Meanings

verb

  1. 1.To tread heavily, especially to crush underfoot.
  2. 2.To utterly defeat an opponent.

noun

  1. 1.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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