different between stomp vs stomping

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /st?mp/?
• (US) IPA^(key): /st?mp/
• Rhymes: -?mp

Verb

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.
3. (transitive) To crush grapes with one's feet to make wine

   Synonym: tread

Synonyms

• (to severely beat someone): crush

Translations

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.

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Cognate to German stumpf.(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?mp
• IPA^(key): /st?mp/

Adjective

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.

Inflection

Synonyms

• (blunt): bot

Antonyms

• (blunt): scherp, puntig, spits

Descendants

• ? Papiamentu: stòmpi

Noun

stomp m (plural stompen, diminutive stompje n)

1. stump (short, formless, protruding object)

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

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

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

Descendants

• ? French: estompe
• ? German: Estompe

Verb

stomp

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

English

Verb

stomping

1. present participle of stomp

Adjective

stomping (comparative more stomping, superlative most stomping)

1. In a way that stomps or suggests stomping; stompy; thumping.

   a stomping techno track

Derived terms

• stompingly

Noun

stomping (plural stompings)

1. The act of one who stomps.
   • 2009, William Ayers, Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Antiwar Activist (page 184)

     Once in custody it got worse — systematic beatings, breaking people's glasses in their faces, mace at close range, stompings, and gauntlets to run.