trumping
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Definitions oftrumping
- To play on (a card of another suit) with a trump.
Example: "He knew the hand was lost when his ace was trumped."
- To play a trump, or to take a trick with a trump.
- To get the better of, or finesse, a competitor.
- To impose unfairly; to palm off.
- To supersede.
Example: "In this election, it would seem issues of national security trumped economic issues."
- To outweigh; be stronger, greater, bigger than or in other way superior to.
- To blow a trumpet.
- To flatulate.
Example: "And without warning me, as he lay there, he suddenly trumped next to me in bed."
- The act by which something is trumped, topped or capped.
- The sound of a trumpet.
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