tromp

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An 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 or gathers to generate compressed air.
动词 v.
  1. To tread heavily, especially to crush underfoot. US,ambitransitive
    — Mother yelled at my brothers for tromping through her flowerbed.
  2. To utterly defeat an opponent. informal
    — The team had been tromped by their cross-town rivals, and the players were embarrassed to show their faces in school the next day.

词形变化

tromps present,singular,third-person tromping participle,present tromped participle,past tromped past tromps plural trombe alternative trompe alternative

词源

词源 1
1892, variant of tramp.
词源 2
French trombe, trompe, a waterspout, a water-blowing machine. Doublet of trump and tulumba.
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