Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to trump
Participle: trumped
Gerund: trumping
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | trump |
| you | trump |
| he;she;it | trumps |
| we | trump |
| you | trump |
| they | trump |
Perfect
| I | have trumped |
| you | have trumped |
| he;she;it | has trumped |
| we | have trumped |
| you | have trumped |
| they | have trumped |
Past
| I | trumped |
| you | trumped |
| he;she;it | trumped |
| we | trumped |
| you | trumped |
| they | trumped |
Pluperfect
| I | had trumped |
| you | had trumped |
| he;she;it | had trumped |
| we | had trumped |
| you | had trumped |
| they | had trumped |
Future
| I | will trump |
| you | will trump |
| he;she;it | will trump |
| we | will trump |
| you | will trump |
| they | will trump |
Future Perfect
| I | will have trumped |
| you | will have trumped |
| he;she;it | will have trumped |
| we | will have trumped |
| you | will have trumped |
| they | will have trumped |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | trump |
| you | trump |
| he;she;it | trump |
| we | trump |
| you | trump |
| they | trump |
Perfect
| I | have trumped |
| you | have trumped |
| he;she;it | have trumped |
| we | have trumped |
| you | have trumped |
| they | have trumped |
Imperfect
| I | trumped |
| you | trumped |
| he;she;it | trumped |
| we | trumped |
| you | trumped |
| they | trumped |
Pluperfect
| I | had trumped |
| you | had trumped |
| he;she;it | had trumped |
| we | had trumped |
| you | had trumped |
| they | had trumped |
Conditional
Present
| I | would trump |
| you | would trump |
| he;she;it | would trump |
| we | would trump |
| you | would trump |
| they | would trump |
Perfect
| I | would have trumped |
| you | would have trumped |
| he;she;it | would have trumped |
| we | would have trumped |
| you | would have trumped |
| they | would have trumped |
Imperative
| you | trump |
| we | Let's trump |
| you | trump |
Verbs conjugated like 'trump'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'trump'
crump,
frump,
grump,
thump,
tramp,
tremp,
tromp,
tump,
betrump,
bump,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to emit digestive gases from the anus, especially with accompanying sound
- badger, blow off, break ass, break wind, crepitate, curmur, cut one loose, cut the cheese, drop a bomb, fart, flatulate, grunt, guff, let fluffy off the chain, let one go, let one rip, pass gas, pass wind, poop, poot, rip ass, rip one, spill the beans, step on a duck, step on a frog, toot
- to be better than
- best, better, dwarf, eclipse, exceed, excel, outclass, outdo, outmatch, outperform, outrival, outrun, outshadow, outshine, outstrip, outvie, overshadow, pass, put to shame, surpass, top, transcend, upstage
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Possibly from French triomphe (“triumph”) or Old French triumphe. If so, it is a doublet of triumph and thriambus. Compare German Trumpf.
Sample Sentences
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He knew the hand was lost when his ace was trumped.
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He lost his money at whist after dinner, and actually trumped his partner’s highest spade. [1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 52, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:]
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to trick or trump mankind [, Act 1, Scene 3]
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Wren, who had hoped to make his name with his discovery, immediately put De Corpore aside, hoping that in silence his failure would disappear. He was forced to think again about his future and resolved to seek new territory within the New Philosophy which he could call his own, rather than face the embarrassment of being trumped for a second time. [2011, Leo Hollis, The Phoenix:]
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Authors have been trumped upon us. [1699, Charles Leslie, A Short and Easy Method with the Deists:]
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In this election, it would seem issues of national security trumped economic issues.
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The phrase was, and remains, a double-edged sword: a testament to the hard-working and hard-living citizens of the Crescent City and an indicator of the “ah, whatever” shrug hanging over its corrupt politics, its ramshackle infrastructure and its belief that partying trumps all. [2015 August 12, Todd Leopold, “Return to the ‘City That Care Forgot’”, in CNN, archived from the original on 02 Jan 2022:]