tromp

Meanings

Verb

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

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.

Related

Similar words

• march, stamp, stomp, tramp, trample
• clobber, decimate, rout, trounce, whip

Origin

• 1892, variant of tramp.
• French trombe, trompe, a waterspout, a water-blowing machine. Compare trump, a trumpet.