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trumping

trumping is the present participle and gerund of trump.

Noun

trumping (plural trumpings)

  1. The act by which something is trumped, topped or capped.
    • Employ two revokes, two trumpings of your partner's best card and two ignorings of a call — all in the same hand!1923, William Henry Koebel, All Aboard: A Frivolous Book, page 102
    • To describe an oddball combination like 'Frolf' as a 'marriage of Frisbee and Golf' is to open yourself to trumpings of the form 'yeah, a shotgun marriage', 'a broken marriage', or depending on your politics, a 'gay marriage'.2012, Tony Veale, Exploding The Creativity Myth
  2. (archaic, poetic) The sound of a trumpet.
    • We list to the trumpings that herald the storm,
      To the roll of the drum, and the order to form!1861-1868, Frank Moore, The Rebellion Record

Meaning of trump

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.

See all 24 meanings of trump

Forms of trumping

pluraltrumpings

Phrases with trumping

Questions about trumping

What does trumping mean?
Trumping means the act by which something is trumped, topped or capped.
What is trumping the present participle and gerund of?
Trumping is the present participle and gerund of trump.
What part of speech is trumping?
Trumping is a noun.
What is the plural of trumping?
The plural of trumping is trumpings.

Words near trumping in the dictionary

  1. Trumpier
  2. Trumpies
  3. Trumpiest
  4. Trumpification
  5. Trumpiness
  6. trumping
  7. trumping up
  8. trumpings
  9. Trumpington
  10. Trumpish
  11. Trumpishness

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