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English

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • (UK) IPA(key): /stɒmp/
  • (US) IPA(key): /stɑmp/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɒmp

Verb

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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

Synonyms

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  • (to severely beat someone): crush

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Noun

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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.

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Dutch

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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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.

Declension

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Declension of stomp
uninflected stomp
inflected stompe
comparative stomper
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial stomp stomper het stompst
het stompste
indefinite m./f. sing. stompe stompere stompste
n. sing. stomp stomper stompste
plural stompe stompere stompste
definite stompe stompere stompste
partitive stomps stompers

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Descendants

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  • Papiamentu: stòmpi, stompi

Noun

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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!

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Verb

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stomp

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