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tromped

[tromp]

Origin

verb (used with object) Informal.

1.

to tramp or trample.

2.

to defeat soundly; trounce.

Origin:
1880–85; gradational variant of tramp, perhaps with vowel of stomp

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tromp

1892, variant of tramp; mainly Amer.Eng.

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"I do not share the gloomy thought that Negroes in America are doomed to be stomped out bodaciously, nor even shackled to the bottom of things. Of course some of them will be tromped out, and some will always be at the bottom, keeping company with other bottom-folks."

-Zora Neale Hurston

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