Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to romp
Participle: romped
Gerund: romping
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | romp |
| you | romp |
| he;she;it | romps |
| we | romp |
| you | romp |
| they | romp |
Perfect
| I | have romped |
| you | have romped |
| he;she;it | has romped |
| we | have romped |
| you | have romped |
| they | have romped |
Past
| I | romped |
| you | romped |
| he;she;it | romped |
| we | romped |
| you | romped |
| they | romped |
Pluperfect
| I | had romped |
| you | had romped |
| he;she;it | had romped |
| we | had romped |
| you | had romped |
| they | had romped |
Future
| I | will romp |
| you | will romp |
| he;she;it | will romp |
| we | will romp |
| you | will romp |
| they | will romp |
Future Perfect
| I | will have romped |
| you | will have romped |
| he;she;it | will have romped |
| we | will have romped |
| you | will have romped |
| they | will have romped |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | romp |
| you | romp |
| he;she;it | romp |
| we | romp |
| you | romp |
| they | romp |
Perfect
| I | have romped |
| you | have romped |
| he;she;it | have romped |
| we | have romped |
| you | have romped |
| they | have romped |
Imperfect
| I | romped |
| you | romped |
| he;she;it | romped |
| we | romped |
| you | romped |
| they | romped |
Pluperfect
| I | had romped |
| you | had romped |
| he;she;it | had romped |
| we | had romped |
| you | had romped |
| they | had romped |
Conditional
Present
| I | would romp |
| you | would romp |
| he;she;it | would romp |
| we | would romp |
| you | would romp |
| they | would romp |
Perfect
| I | would have romped |
| you | would have romped |
| he;she;it | would have romped |
| we | would have romped |
| you | would have romped |
| they | would have romped |
Imperative
| you | romp |
| we | Let's romp |
| you | romp |
Verbs conjugated like 'romp'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'romp'
comp,
pomp,
ramp,
roap,
roop,
roup,
tromp,
yomp,
amp,
bomb,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1709, perhaps a variant of ramp (v.) (see rampage). Meaning "to win (a contest) with great ease" first attested 1888. Rompers "small children's overalls" first recorded 1909.
2. Probably a variant of ramp.
Sample Sentences
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sport (formal)
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When the kids're allowed to romp in the bedroom, they break something.
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If I romp down on the gas, it'll do sixty in six seconds.
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Coach Smith had to romp on 'em to get 'em out of a losing streak.
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I romped through my finals.
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England romped to an easy win over Australia.
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Ronald Koeman collected that prize in the run-up to this game, and then watched his team romp to their biggest victory for nearly a century, inflicting a defeat that Sunderland will struggle to forget. [2014 October 18, Paul Doyle, “Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter”, in The Guardian:]
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We romped along with the wind astern.
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From Crewe, of course, the ten-coach load of 347/370 tons was a laughably easy proposition for the two engines, between them in effect making up Class "11" power, and they fairly romped away with the train. [1959 October, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 477:]
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This wasn't salacious, romping 'sex', tabloid style [1997, Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture:]
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Ladbrokes is offering 2-1 odds that contestants WILL romp in the ten-week show. [2006, Martin Conboy, quoting The Sun, Tabloid Britain: Constructing a Community Through Language, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 204:]
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One young lady who had just romped with an A-List Hollywood star, panicked during my strategic silence and threw in an entirely unexpected line about how he'd enjoyed throttling himself with his tie. [2010 May 13, Sharon Marshall, Tabloid Girl, Hachette UK, →ISBN:]