tromp

1. (chiefly US, ambitransitive) To tread heavily, especially to crush underfoot.Examples: "Mother yelled at my brothers for tromping through her flowerbed."; "The hoodlums were tromping pumpkins they had stolen from their neighbors' Halloween displays."; "He lifted one foot and set it down again, whammo, but Ed was so engrossed in Pynchon's novel that all he recalls is tromping the scorpion to death with his stung foot, then quickly fetching a bucket of ice water, jamming the foot into it, and continuing to read."Synonyms: march, stamp, stomp, tramp, trampleUSambitransitive

2. (informal) To utterly defeat an opponent.Examples: "The team had been tromped by their cross-town rivals, and the players were embarrassed to show their faces in school the next day."Synonyms: clobber, decimate, rout, trounce, whipinformal