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单词 trump
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
trump1 /trʌmp/USA pronunciation   n. 
    [countable]
  1. Games
    • any playing card of a suit that for a time outranks the other suits.
    • Often, trumps. [plural] the suit itself.
  2. Informal Termsa fine person.

v. 
  1. Gamesto play or take (a card) with a trump: [+ object]He led a queen and so she trumped it.[no object]On the next round he trumped.
  2. to outdo;
    surpass;
    excel:[+ object]Although the prosecutor seemed to have an advantage with her expert witness, the defense attorney trumped her by bringing in a more qualified expert.
  3. trump up, [+ up + object] to make up (an accusation, etc.), esp. as a lie:They trumped up charges against him.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
trump1  (trump),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. Games[Cards.]
    • any playing card of a suit that for the time outranks the other suits, such a card being able to take any card of another suit.
    • Often, trumps. (used with a sing. v.) the suit itself.
  2. Informal Termsa fine person;
    brick.

v.t. 
  1. Games[Cards.]to take with a trump.
  2. to excel;
    surpass;
    outdo.

v.i. 
  1. Games[Cards.]
    • to play a trump.
    • to take a trick with a trump.
  2. trump up, to devise deceitfully or dishonestly, as an accusation;
    fabricate:Try as they might, they were unable to trump up a convincing case against him.
  • unexplained variant of triumph 1520–30
trumpless, adj. 

trump2 (trump),USA pronunciation [Literary.]
n. 
  1. Slang Termsa trumpet.
  2. Slang Termsits sound.

v.i. 
  1. Slang Termsto blow a trumpet.
  • Old French tromper, derivative of trompe
  • Old High German trumpa, variant of trumba trumpet; (verb, verbal) Middle English trompen
  • Old French
  • (noun, nominal) Middle English trompe 1250–1300

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
trump /trʌmp/ n
  1. Also called: trump card any card from the suit chosen as trumps
  2. this suit itself; trumps
  3. Also called: trump card a decisive or advantageous move, resource, action, etc
  4. informal a fine or reliable person
vb
  1. to play a trump card on (a suit, or a particular card of a suit, that is not trumps)
  2. (transitive) to outdo or surpass

See also trumps, trump upEtymology: 16th Century: variant of triumph
trump /trʌmp/ archaic or literary n
  1. a trumpet or the sound produced by one
  2. the last trumpthe final trumpet call that according to the belief of some will awaken and raise the dead on the Day of Judgment
Etymology: 13th Century: from Old French trompe, from Old High German trumpa trumpet; compare trombone
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