stomp

See also: Stomp

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• 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

Synonyms

• (to severely beat someone): crush

Derived terms

• stomp for
• stomp off
• stomp on
• stomp out
• waffle-stomp / waffle stomp

Translations

trample heavily on something or someone

• Arabic: دَاسَ (dāsa), دَهَسَ (dahasa), دَعَسَ (daʕasa)

  Hijazi Arabic: دَعَس (daʕas)

• Cherokee: ᎠᎳᏍᏓᎡᎭ (alasdaeha)
• Czech: dupat (cs)
• Dutch: stampen (nl)
• Finnish: talloa (fi)
• French: fouler (fr), piétiner (fr)
• German: stampfen (de), zerstampfen (de), trampeln (de)
• Italian: calpestare (it)
• Kabuverdianu: rapika
• Latin: calcō
• Ottoman Turkish: طبانلامق (tabanlamak), آیاقلامق (ayaklamak)
• Portuguese: pisotear (pt)
• Russian: топта́ть (ru) (toptátʹ)
• Spanish: pisotear (es)
• Swedish: stampa (sv)

severely beat someone physically or figuratively

• Dutch: stampen (nl)
• Finnish: piestä (fi), lyödä (fi)
• Italian: pestare (it)
• Russian: избива́ть (ru) (izbivátʹ)
• Spanish: pisotear (es)

grape crushing

• Polish: deptać (pl) impf
• Portuguese: pisar (pt)

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.

Derived terms

• comp stomp
• curb stomp
• stomp pad
• stomp rocket

 

Translations

a stamp

• German: Stampfer (de) m, Fußstampfer m, kräftiger Tritt m

dance having a heavy, rhythmic step

jazz music for this dance

• Russian: стомп m (stomp)

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

• 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.

Inflection

Inflection 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	—

Derived terms

• stompheid
• stompzinnig

 

Descendants

• → Papiamentu: stòmpi, stompi

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!

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

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

Descendants

• Negerhollands: stomp, stompie
• → French: estompe
  • → German: Estompe
• → Sranan Tongo: tompu
  • → Saramaccan: tómpi

Verb

stomp

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