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as in pounding

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verb

present participle of tromp
1
as in shuffling
to move heavily or clumsily sleepily tromped into the bathroom, tripping over a pile of dirty laundry along the way

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2
as in stomping
to tread on heavily so as to crush or injure the kids tromped my flowers to smithereens

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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

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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

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5
as in licking
to strike repeatedly tromped the bully, giving him a taste of his own medicine

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Recent Examples of tromping
Noun
Surprisingly, the underside of the staircase’s base is one of their favorite nap locations, despite the tromping of customers and staff up and down. — Literary Hub, 10 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tromping
  1. pounding
  2. shuffling
  3. stomping
  4. burying
  5. strolling
  6. licking
  7. hammering
  8. stumbling
Noun
  • Rucking targets both at once without the joint pounding of running or the recovery debt of hard gym sessions.
    — Samantha Agate, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 July 2026
  • Rutted migration routes, carved by the constant pounding of animal hooves, littered northern Pennsylvania.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 June 2026
Definition of pounding
Verb
  • For the most part, this was a second consecutive solid performance by a group that will likely undergo major personnel shuffling all season.
    — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 2 Nov. 2026
  • That's because astronomers have discovered two husks of two zombie planets shuffling through the gory remains of what was once their planetary neighbors around a long-deceased star, or white dwarf.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of shuffling
Verb
  • But wrap a play in too much homespun folksiness and the thing starts to feel both suffocating and, despite all the driving tunes and stomping choreography in the world, suffocated.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2026
  • The answer isn’t between stomping the gas pedal or leaving the car parked.
    — Bob Ackerman, Forbes.com, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of stomping
Verb
  • In a town in southeastern Ukraine that is occupied by Russian forces, burying the dead has actually been forbidden.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 7 Nov. 2026
  • Brand was also convicted of burying his head in the genitals of a former Channel 4 employee during the recording of a DVD in 2009.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of burying
Verb
  • Located near the funky Fish Lane, Southside is the spot for dumplings and siu mai after strolling the museums of South Bank.
    — Erin Florio, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Nov. 2026
  • Take the Spy Museum, for example, which developed its own free walking tour because of the breadth of strolling space in the area and interest from both residents and tourists.
    — Amelia Mularz, Architectural Digest, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of strolling
Verb
  • That’s not exactly chump change, considering Atlanta was still licking its wounds after the Great Depression.
    — Serena Turner, Vanity Fair, 3 Nov. 2026
  • After contracting the plague, he was banished to a cave, where a dog brought him bread and healed his wounds by licking them.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of licking
Noun
  • Neocloud stocks have taken a hammering over the past month, with CoreWeave and Nebius down more than 30% while Iren has tanked 40%.
    — Arjun Kharpal, CNBC, 26 Oct. 2026
  • The butt of the Axvant is designed to double as a mallet, mostly for knocking in tent stakes and taking care of other basic, non-precision hammering.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of hammering
Verb
  • Ginger’s still stumbling over the revelation when McMann and Lonnie arrive to abduct her at gunpoint.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2026
  • After stumbling into an intro to acting class, the 28-year-old quickly caught the professor’s attention.
    — Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of stumbling

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