trump
verb/trʌmp/
/trʌmp/
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they trump | /trʌmp/ /trʌmp/ |
| he / she / it trumps | /trʌmps/ /trʌmps/ |
| past simple trumped | /trʌmpt/ /trʌmpt/ |
| past participle trumped | /trʌmpt/ /trʌmpt/ |
| -ing form trumping | /ˈtrʌmpɪŋ/ /ˈtrʌmpɪŋ/ |
- trump something (with something) (in some card games) to play a trump card that beats somebody else’s card
- trump something/somebody to beat something that somebody says or does by saying or doing something even better
- They were trumped by another firm that made a lower bid.
Word Originearly 16th cent.: alteration of triumph, once used in card games in the same sense.
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