trumped-up
trumped-up adjective: faked, fabricated or falsely manufactured.
Adjective
trumped-up (comparative more trumped-up, superlative most trumped-up)
- Faked, fabricated or falsely manufactured.
- These trumped-up charges are unfair to the defendant.
trumped-up meaning in Tamil and Malayalam
trumped-up in Tamil
- இட்டுக் கட்டப்பட்ட, பொய்யாகப் புனைந்துரைக்கப் பட்ட
trumped-up in Malayalam
- spurious, bogus, specious
- കെട്ടിച്ചമച്ച, കപടം, നിർമ്മിത, കല്പിത, കൃത്രിമ, അസത്യ
Forms of trumped-up
| comparative | more trumped-up |
|---|---|
| superlative | most trumped-up |
Origin of trumped-up
From the past participle form of the phrasal verb trump up.
Questions about trumped-up
- What does trumped-up mean?
- Trumped-up means faked, fabricated or falsely manufactured.
- What is trumped-up in Tamil?
- Trumped-up in Tamil is இட்டுக் கட்டப்பட்ட, பொய்யாகப் புனைந்துரைக்கப் பட்ட. See Trumped-up meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is trumped-up?
- Trumped-up is an adjective.
Words near trumped-up in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: trumped-up (page history and authors); trumped-up (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); trumped-up (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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