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

2

: to step hard : stamp

tromped on the brake

transitive verb

1

: tramp

2

: stamp

tromps the accelerator to the floor

—Jim Becker

3

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

Examples of tromp in a Sentence

We tromped over the grass.

Workmen were tromping through the building all day.

Recent Examples on the Web

California’s water officials on Tuesday will tromp out to Phillips Station near Sierra-at-Tahoe ski resort to take their second monthly manual snowpack reading of the season — a largely ceremonial event in an age when snow gauges across the Sierra provide digital readings every day. —Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2024

This could lead to serious environmental problems as the creatures tromp through fragile ecosystems, outcompete native species and deposit enormous amounts of feces in waterways. —Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Nov. 2023

Christopher McDougall’s Born to Run spurred thousands to tromp through the woods barefoot. —Sheon Han February 9, Longreads, 9 Feb. 2023

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

Word History

Etymology

by alteration

First Known Use

1846, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1

Kids Definition

tromp

verb

ˈträmp 

ˈtrȯmp

: tramp entry 1 sense 1, stomp

Biographical Definition

Tromp

biographical name

ˈtrȯmp 

ˈträmp

Maarten Harpertszoon 1598–1653 Dutch admiral