Definition of trompnext
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as in to trample
to tread on heavily so as to crush or injure the kids tromped my flowers to smithereens

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as in to stroll
to travel by foot for exercise or pleasure the scouts tromped through the dell, mostly just following the course of the creek

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Recent Examples of tromp At the dawn of the 20th century, a logger played by Joel Edgerton tromps through the woods cutting down timber that will build a country which is rapidly leaving him behind. Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2026 The Danish-made felt boots with rubber soles have proven to be the ideal inside-outside shoe, with ankle-high coverage that adds just enough protection to tromp around through a light dusting of snow or stroll along a woodsy trail. Lily Ritter, Outside, 18 Nov. 2025 Our picks are based on first-hand experience testing in the field on real trips (alas, we don't get paid to tromp around the wilderness). Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 22 Nov. 2024 Then, as people prepared to file out into the freezing night, many first stopped to tromp on the fake snow and greet the tall human tree — who obliged by shaking his branches. Jocelyn Noveck, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2024 See All Example Sentences for tromp
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tromp
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  • Andersen in particular has struggled with such an aggressive role, where recovery pace and stomping channel defending are required to keep the shape.
    Thom Harris, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Even when stomped into the mud by a 17,500-pound apex predator, dinosaur footprints rarely last long enough to fossilize over millions of years.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 9 Sep. 2026
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  • Their biggest obstacle is that their collectivist vision has never worked without trampling on civil liberties.
    Nolan Finley The Detroit News, Arkansas Online, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Chalk this up to a loss, as Ohio State tramples over both of USC’s fronts.
    Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2026
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  • Colonizers call it voluntary emigration, but there is nothing voluntary about fleeing after your home has been bombed, your fields poisoned, your water cut off and your child buried.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Over one tense weekend, old patterns and buried wounds surface in front of in-laws and guests, until the celebration fractures into a confrontation.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 9 Sep. 2026
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  • The setting is contemporary Paris in crisis, when civil unrest, rather amorphously presented apart from increasing numbers of military on the streets, makes evening strolls potentially problematic.
    Jay Weissberg, Variety, 11 Sep. 2026
  • With a nod from the person at the desk, we were buzzed out and strolled straight onto the tarmac to mount up.
    Andrew P. Collins, The Drive, 9 Sep. 2026
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  • There was the physician who analyzed the growth rate of his fingernails for 35 years and the geologist who looked into why his colleagues lick rocks.
    Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 4 Sep. 2026
  • An ancient Nazi scientist (Dan Stevens) crawling across a carpet to lick a woman’s stilettoed foot.
    Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 31 Aug. 2026
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  • The filmmaker has likened his perspective in this project to that of Dorothy’s dog Toto in The Wizard of Oz, alert to the shuffling feet beneath the curtain rather than being bamboozled by the shyster title character’s techno showmanship.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Not much else changed in Class 5A, besides Azle and Arlington Seguin shuffling down two spots with Week 2 losses.
    Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Sep. 2026
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  • Idzik and fellow walk-on Jordan Garside would reserve a lecture hall in the business school, write their mocks on the whiteboard and throw a two-person draft party.
    Joseph Person, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2026
  • The gallery watched with rapt attention as Reddington gestured wildly, slammed his hand down and threw a stack of papers onto the bench.
    Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2026
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  • Travis saunters over to dap him up through the cab’s open window, but this one has its own special, age-gap flair.
    Tom Smyth, Vulture, 1 Sep. 2026
  • The charter Girardeau sailed with was about four miles out and almost at the its trip when word of the hammerhead was radioed out — the crew decided to take a chance and sped up the coast 15 minutes to see the shark still sauntering in the sea.
    Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 24 Aug. 2026

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“Tromp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tromp. Accessed 12 Sep. 2026.

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