to trump
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7.0
- verb
- /trʌmp/
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publicitar
- Throughout the campaign, the candidate continued to trump her achievements to gain voter support.
Examples
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The team decided to trump their latest product with a grand launch event to attract more customers.
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I know nothing of the circumstances of this fruitless journey, this aborted contact, this preemptively censored mother-daughter communion, or this trumping audience with the Maytag.
Academic text (2004) -
That was, you know, trumped up into a talked up into a felony.
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However, discourses of national security were trumped again with Truman's decision to recognize the new state of Israel.
Academic text (2004) -
... if he were alive now, he would almost certainly be locked up in a federal supermax prison as a national security threat on trumped-up charges.
Blog text (8) -
At the conference, she took the opportunity to trump the benefits of their new software in front of potential clients.
Synonyms
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3.5
To say something loudly so people can hear
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6.1
To praise or advertise something strongly to make people want it
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5.7
To show something in a very obvious way to get attention
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4.4
To promote something with exaggerated, flashy advertising to get attention
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7.4
To praise something too much to make people want to buy it
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3.4
To tell important news to many people in public
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9.5
To promote something loudly and with exaggeration to get attention
Announce something loudly and proudly to get attention
To tell many people about something in a showy way
To loudly promote things in public to attract attention
To speak loudly so many people can hear, often using a cone-shaped tube
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Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- Offensive
A person who acts like Donald Trump in style and speech but on a smaller scale
How Loud
Surface Forms
Etymology
A helpful way to remember trump meaning to proclaim loudly is to think of the word trumpet, which means 'a loud brass instrument', so to trump something is to announce it loudly or with show.