What is "tromped"

Usage examples of "tromped".

As soon as the heavy old vehicle slewed to a stop, he shoved the shift lever into reverse and tromped on the accelerator and wove the lumbering machine down off the slope and back along the blessedly empty slow lane to the last off ramp.

Then he tromped to a pillow bush,pounded it almost flat and lumpy, and snored himself tosleep while the jungle trembled.

The best interment was in a gar-bage dump or toxic landfill for the disposal of poisonousplants and animals, but ordinary ground would do if prop-erly cursed and tromped down sufficiently hard.

So he had tromped to see theGood Magician, because that was what creatures withseemingly insoluble problems did—but he lacked the intel-lect to formulate the Question.

Smash cupped itcarefully in his hand and tromped from the gloomy cham-ber.

While he tromped forward,thinking his slew of un-ogrish thoughts, they had been con-stricting their loop.

For, though Smashhad not tromped personally wherever the string went, thestring remained his agent and surely counted.

It was for the principles and ideals you've mocked and tromped into the muck—the honor of our country and the fellership of Americans the world over.

If I had dropped him underfoot he might have been tromped on fatally for I was kicking folks right and left without caring where they fell.

But them miners is a weakly breed, because as I rode out of town I seen the crowd dipping four or five of ‘em into a hoss-trough to bring ‘em to, on account of Cap'n Kidd having accidentally tromped on ‘em.

Some of them spittoons was quite heavy, and when one missed me and went bong on Snake River's head, he curled up like a angleworm which has been tromped on.

The way cleared as bushes hastily got out of his way and paths wriggled to avoid getting tromped when out of position.

Apparently the bear had tromped through it coming or going and had spent some time beating up a plastic crate full of newspapers and mail-order catalogs.

The driver went wide-eyed, honked his air horn, and tromped on the brakes just as I dove under, watching the squealing tires to see if they were going straight or fishtailing.

As he drew near to the latter, Arkan suddenly dropped into a lower gear and tromped the gas pedal, twisting the wheel at the same time.