tromp
verb
ˈträmp 
ˈtrȯmp
tromped; tromping; tromps
intransitive verb
1
: tramp sense 1
a lot of knocking on doors, tromping from room to room
Sara Davidson
Sara Davidson2
: to step hard : stamp
tromped on the brake
transitive verb
1
: tramp
2
: stamp
tromps the accelerator to the floor Jim Becker
Jim Becker3
a
: to give a physical beating to
b
: to defeat decisively
Synonyms
- barge
- clump
- flog [British]
- flounder
- galumph
- lumber
- lump
- plod
- pound
- scuff
- scuffle
- shamble
- shuffle
- slog
- slough
- stamp
- stomp
- stumble
- stump
- tramp
- trudge
See all Synonyms & Antonyms 
Example Sentences
We tromped over the grass. Workmen were tromping through the building all day.
Recent Examples on the Web And these toadlets, which tromp about the mountainous cloud forests of Brazil, are found in leafy habitats where larger ones are not, Pie said, suggesting that their petiteness is in some way essential to their survival there. Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 15 June 2022 But many braved the elements and tried to tromp home on foot. Mike Klingaman, baltimoresun.com, 6 Jan. 2022 With that many people, having everyone tromp up to the main house to do their business quickly became untenable. Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Nov. 2021 This shoe is ideal for anyone tromping around in wet terrain, providing the breathability of a sandal with the protection of a full shoe. Janna Irons, Popular Mechanics, 26 Mar. 2020 Wayne's version of Freeman tromps through the halls of Black Mesa with his cavalcade of fools, turning the entire self-serious narrative of Half-Life on its head. Emily Rose, Ars Technica, 16 Apr. 2020 As the world has slowed down to stave off the spread of COVID-19, stories of wild animals tromping into now-quiet city streets have gone viral online. Ula Chrobak, Popular Science, 9 Apr. 2020 San Francisco throbbed red and gold Sunday as the 49ers tromped into the Super Bowl for the first time in seven years, with every conceivable sports bar rocking hard and block parties filling driveways and living rooms with screaming fans. Evan Sernoffsky, SFChronicle.com, 2 Feb. 2020 Back in the United States, my parents, like others searching for healthy hobbies, tromped on volksmarches. Washington Post, 25 Dec. 2019 See More
Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 15 June 2022 But many braved the elements and tried to tromp home on foot. Mike Klingaman, baltimoresun.com, 6 Jan. 2022 With that many people, having everyone tromp up to the main house to do their business quickly became untenable. Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Nov. 2021 This shoe is ideal for anyone tromping around in wet terrain, providing the breathability of a sandal with the protection of a full shoe. Janna Irons, Popular Mechanics, 26 Mar. 2020 Wayne's version of Freeman tromps through the halls of Black Mesa with his cavalcade of fools, turning the entire self-serious narrative of Half-Life on its head. Emily Rose, Ars Technica, 16 Apr. 2020 As the world has slowed down to stave off the spread of COVID-19, stories of wild animals tromping into now-quiet city streets have gone viral online. Ula Chrobak, Popular Science, 9 Apr. 2020 San Francisco throbbed red and gold Sunday as the 49ers tromped into the Super Bowl for the first time in seven years, with every conceivable sports bar rocking hard and block parties filling driveways and living rooms with screaming fans. Evan Sernoffsky, SFChronicle.com, 2 Feb. 2020 Back in the United States, my parents, like others searching for healthy hobbies, tromped on volksmarches. Washington Post, 25 Dec. 2019 See More Word History
Etymology
by alteration
First Known Use
1846, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1
Biographical Definition
Tromp
biographical name
ˈtrȯmp
ˈträmp
Maarten Harpertszoon 1598–1653 Dutch admiral
tromping 1 of 2
noun
as in hammering
Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- hammering
- pounding
- bashing
- thrashing
- pummeling
- smashing
- thumping
- pelting
- licking
- whipping
- paddling
- beating
- belting
- clubbing
- battering
- walloping
- bludgeoning
- mauling
- attack
- assault
- flogging
- buffeting
- socking
- pummelling
- whaling
- rampage
- cudgeling
- drubbing
- harm
- hurt
- lacing
- bulldozing
- riot
- cudgelling
- detriment
- onslaught
- frenzy
- batting
- injury
- upheaval
- pommelling
- battery
- pommeling
- damage
- threat
- terror
- browbeating
- impairment
- revolt
- tumult
- turbulence
- fury
- hectoring
- shock
- outrage
- uproar
- outbreak
- savagery
- rupture
- paroxysm
- rage
- bullying
- strong-arming
- barbarity
- storm
- brutality
- crippling
- mayhem
- maiming
- foul play
- violence
- mutilation
- force
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- pacifism
- pacificism
- nonviolence
tromping
2 of 2verb
1
as in stomping
to move heavily or clumsily sleepily tromped into the bathroom, tripping over a pile of dirty laundry along the way Synonyms & Similar Words
- stomping
- shuffling
- stumbling
- trudging
- barging
- tramping
- hauling
- dragging
- lurching
- scuffling
- sloughing
- galumphing
- pounding
- shambling
- stamping
- lumbering
- clumping
- slogging
- scuffing
- weaving
- stumping
- floundering
- lumping
- plodding
- staggering
- flopping
- waddling
- swaying
- flogging
- blundering
- tottering
- careening
- reeling
- doddering
- wabbling
- teetering
- wobbling
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- sliding
- coasting
- gliding
- waltzing
- whisking
- hovering
- floating
- hanging
- drifting
- breezing
- wafting
- poising
2
as in trampling
to tread on heavily so as to crush or injure the kids tromped my flowers to smithereens Synonyms & Similar Words
- stomping
- trampling
- tramping
- stamping
- kicking
- champing
- mashing
- smashing
- hoofing
- squashing
- squelching
- running over
- pulping
- overriding
- running down
- booting
- stepping (on)
3
as in burying
to defeat by a large margin sure, I lost the election, but I didn't get tromped, so I'll see you again in four years Synonyms & Similar Words
- burying
- whipping
- bombing
- dusting
- throwing
- thrashing
- clobbering
- overcoming
- trouncing
- beating
- smothering
- annihilating
- mastering
- flattening
- trimming
- taking
- pasting
- whomping
- routing
- skinning
- sweeping
- creaming
- walloping
- whapping
- conquering
- upsetting
- destroying
- whupping
- smoking
- drubbing
- whopping
- waxing
- topping
- licking
- blowing away
- overwhelming
- crushing
- shellacking
- dispatching
- skunking
- slaughtering
- exceeding
- succeeding
- scoring
- subduing
- capping
- eating alive
- subjugating
- vanquishing
- surpassing
- surmounting
- hurdling
- running rings around
- wiping the ground with
- upending
- beating the pants off
- running circles around
- wiping the floor with
- snowing under
- overbearing
- overthrowing
- finishing
- outdoing
- besting
- transcending
- breaking
- excelling
- overmatching
- overpowering
- flourishing
- knocking over
- bettering
- outshining
- outdistancing
- eclipsing
- sinking
- knocking off
- outstripping
- overtopping
- worsting
- outfighting
- triumphing (over)
- prevailing (over)
- winning (against)
- pipping
- doing in
- nosing out
- acing (out)
- edging (out)
4
as in strolling
to travel by foot for exercise or pleasure the scouts tromped through the dell, mostly just following the course of the creek Synonyms & Similar Words
- strolling
- sauntering
- wandering
- walking
- hiking
- ambling
- roaming
- tramping
- traversing
- traipsing
- marching
- trekking
- perambulating
- roving
- rambling
- promenading
- peregrinating
- power walking
5
as in pounding
to strike repeatedly tromped the bully, giving him a taste of his own medicine Synonyms & Similar Words
- pounding
- licking
- hiding
- knocking
- pelting
- doing
- lashing
- whipping
- slapping
- attacking
- beating
- hitting
- punching
- slamming
- battering
- thumping
- smashing
- assaulting
- slogging
- chopping
- bashing
- pummeling
- hammering
- storming
- paddling
- raiding
- thrashing
- mauling
- whacking
- spanking
- smacking
- batting
- clubbing
- switching
- lambasting
- bludgeoning
- swiping
- buffeting
- lathering
- belting
- whapping
- walloping
- threshing
- rushing
- flogging
- currying
- tanning
- pummelling
- whaling
- drubbing
- fibbing
- whopping
- slating
- working over
- whupping
- punching out
- thwacking
- belaboring
- lacing
- boxing
- basting
- cracking
- wounding
- swatting
- pommeling
- assailing
- pommelling
- clobbering
- beating up on
- birching
- socking
- strapping
- pasting
- busting
- whomping
- cuffing
- whamming
- lamming
- bunging up
- clouting
- flagellating
- besetting
- cudgeling
- roughing (up)
- messing (up)
- laying on
- scourging
- mangling
- cudgelling
- mutilating
- goring
- horsewhipping
- maiming
- lacerating
- leathering
- caning
- pistol-whipping
- cowhiding
- descending (on or upon)
- blackjacking
- fustigating
- jumping (on)
- rawhiding
- pouncing (on or upon)