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Trump v. t. To play a trump card upon; to take with a trump card; as, she trumped the first trick.

Trump v. t.

To trick, or impose on; to deceive. (Obs.) "To trick or trump mankind."

To impose unfairly; to palm off. "Authors have been trumped upon us."

To trump up, to devise; to collect with unfairness; to fabricate; as, to trump up a charge.

Trump v. i. To blow a trumpet. (Obs.)

Trump v. i. (past & past part. trumped; pres. part. trumping) To play a trump card when one of another suit has been led.

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Etymology of 'Trumping'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Trumping" Quotes from Famous Books

... was displaying with childish satisfaction, the new suits in which a tailor of the Capital was trying to disguise him. When Elena wished to accompany him to Buenos Aires, he would wriggle out of it, trumping up some absorbing business. "No; ...

— The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

... fairest-minded of friends, the most comfortable of companions; while the other was an outlaw, a half-heathen, a lover of but one thing in this world, the joyous god of Chance. Pierre was essentially a gamester. He would have extracted satisfaction out of a death-sentence which was contingent on the trumping of an ace. His only honour was ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... staggered as if about to fall. The next instant, though, he recovered himself, and burst into a horrible sardonic laugh. Then he said, in tones full of the bitterest irony: "A conspiracy, is it? Well done, doctor! You think to reconcile me with this wretched girl by trumping up this story that I have been for two years a dupe of her filial piety. It's clumsy, doctor, and is a ...

— Stories by Modern American Authors • Julian Hawthorne