stomp

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

• IPA^(key): /stɒmp/

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• Rhymes: -ɒmp

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

1. (transitive, intransitive) To trample heavily.
2. (transitive, slang) To severely beat someone physically or figuratively.

• (to severely beat someone): crush

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.

Cognate to German stumpf.

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• Rhymes: -ɔmp
• IPA^(key): /stɔmp/

stomp (comparative stomper, superlative stompst)

1. blunt, not sharp

   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.

• (blunt): bot

• (blunt): scherp, puntig, spits

• → Papiamentu: stòmpi

stomp m (plural stompen, diminutive stompje n)

1. A stump, a 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. A blow, a painful hit with the fist or the elbow.

   Je zou hem een stomp geven!

   You’d give him a blow!

• (stump): knobbel
• (blow): slag, klop, mep, mot

• (stump): pin, spits
• (blow): (with the foot) schop, (tender) streling, aai

stomp

1. first-person singular present indicative of stompen
2. imperative of stompen