trumped

Verb

trump (third-person singular simple present trumps, present participle trumping, simple past and past participle trumped)

1. (transitive) To play on (a card of another suit) with a trump.
   • He knew the hand was lost when his ace was trumped.
2. (intransitive) To play a trump, or to take a trick with a trump.
3. (transitive) To get the better of, or finesse, a competitor.
   • to trick or trump mankind, Act 1, Scene 3

   Synonyms:

   outsmart

4. (dated, transitive) To impose unfairly; to palm off.
   • Authors have been trumped upon us.1699, Charles Leslie, A Short and Easy Method with the Deists
5. (transitive) To supersede.
   • In this election, it would seem issues of national security trumped economic issues.
6. (transitive) To outweigh; be stronger, greater, bigger than or in other way superior to.

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