stomp

Etymology

1803, variant of stamp. Compare German stampfen (“to stomp”). More at stamp.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /stɒmp/
• (US) IPA^(key): /stɑmp/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɒmp

Verb

stomp (third-person singular simple present stomps, present participle stomping, simple past and past participle stomped)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To trample heavily.
   • 2000, Mark Topham, Karl Twigg, Rita Campbell (lyrics and music), “Stomp”, performed by Steps:

     Everybody clap your hands
     Get up and dance
     We're gonna stomp all night now
     Everybody move your feet
     Get up and feel the beat
     We're gonna stomp all night now

2. (transitive, slang) To severely beat someone physically or figuratively.
3. (transitive) To crush grapes with one's feet to make wine

   Synonym: tread

Noun

stomp (plural stomps)

1. A deliberate heavy footfall; a stamp.

   She obliterated the cockroach with one stomp.

2. A dance having a heavy, rhythmic step.
3. The jazz music for this dance.

Etymology

From Middle Dutch stompe, from Old Dutch *stump, from Proto-Germanic *stumpaz (“stump”). Cognate to German stumpf.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔmp
• IPA^(key): /stɔmp/

Adjective

stomp (comparative stomper, superlative stompst)

1. blunt, not sharp

   Synonym: bot

   Antonyms: scherp, puntig, spits

   Met zo’n stomp potlood kun je toch niet tekenen!

   You can’t draw with such a blunt pencil!

2. (mathematics, of an angle) having over 90 degrees

   Dit is een stompe hoek.

   This is a blunt angle.

Noun

stomp m (plural stompen, diminutive stompje n)

1. stump (short, formless, protruding object)

   Er bleef na de amputatie niet meer dan een stompje van zijn vinger over.

   After the amputation, no more than a stump of his finger was left.

2. blow (painful hit with the fist or the elbow)

   Je zou hem een stomp geven! ― You’d give him a blow!

Verb

stomp

1. inflection of stompen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative