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Definition of trumping:

of Trump

Synonyms:

frill, ruffle, ruff, neck ruff, choker.

defeating (part of speech: verb)
- defeating,
- winning,
- beating,
- conquering,
- trouncing,
- overcoming,
- overturning,
- humbling,
- subjecting,
- outdoing,
- surmounting,
- crushing,
- overpowering,
- foiling,
- capturing,
- predominating,
- overthrowing,
- routing,
- subduing,
- triumphing,
- quelling,
- mastering,
- vanquishing,
- checkmating,
- outplaying,
- whipping

Usage examples:

I remembered now how cold Helen had been, even during their engagement, trumping up almost any excuse to keep from spending an evening alone with the man who was to be her husband.

- "32 Caliber", Donald McGibeny.
A wild idea of trumping up the expected message, and another of feigning that he has come to inquire after the fox, cross his mind; but he dismisses both: the first because he knows he should be found out, and the second because Miss Lambton might take it as a fresh demand upon her pity for the wound got in her service.

- "Doctor Cupid", Rhoda Broughton.
As to the right- of- way business, Melrose's fences are all up again, his rascally lawyers, Nash at the head, are as busy as bees trumping up his case; and I can only suppose that he has been forcing Faversham to write the unscrupulous letters about it that have been appearing in some of the papers.

- "The Mating of Lydia", Mrs. Humphry Ward.