Topic: CARDS
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trump2 [transitive]
1DGC to play a trump that beats someone else's card in a game
2 to do better than someone else in a situation when people are competing with each other : 
By wearing a simple but stunning dress, she had trumped them all.
By wearing a simple but stunning dress, she had trumped them all.trump something ↔ up
phrasal verbSC to use false information to make someone seem guilty of doing something wrong : They had trumped the whole thing up to get rid of him.
They had trumped the whole thing up to get rid of him.