1.VerbTo tread heavily, especially to crush underfoot.
"Mother yelled at my brothers for tromping through her flowerbed.; The hoodlums were tromping pumpkins they had stolen from their neighbors' Halloween displays."
2.VerbTo utterly defeat an opponent.
"The team had been tromped by their cross-town rivals, and the players were embarrassed to show their faces in school the next day."
3.NounAn 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.