trumping
Playing a winner
Trumping is the act of playing a trump card—a card from a suit designated to beat all other suits in that hand.
By extension, trumping means outdoing or defeating someone with a superior move or advantage: His experience trumped her enthusiasm.
To trump up charges or evidence is to fabricate them: The accusations were trumped up to discredit her.
Doing better than others
- exceedingGoing beyond limits
- eclipsingObscuring by surpassing
- outshiningSurpassing in brilliance
- transcendingExceeding normal bounds
outstripping · outpacing · outdoing · topping · besting · outmatching · overshadowing · outweighing
Too intense to withstand
- conqueringDefeating and taking control
- defeatingOvercoming in competition
- crushingOverwhelming in intensity
- subduingBringing under control
vanquishing · routing · overwhelming · trouncing · demolishing · annihilating · thrashing · dominating
Playing trump on non-trump
- trick-takingWinning dealt card rounds
- following suitImitating another's action
- bridgeStructure spanning an obstacle
- whistTrick-taking partnership card game
euchre · spades · hearts · pinochle · declarer · finesse · slam · bidding
Of chief importance
- supersedingReplacing with something newer
- outweighingExceeding in importance
- nullifyingMaking of no effect
- invalidatingMaking something null
canceling · displacing · preempting · overruling · supplanting · subordinating · negating · countermanding
outperforming
Doing better than others
- exceedingGoing beyond limits
- eclipsingObscuring by surpassing
- outshiningSurpassing in brilliance
transcending · outstripping · outpacing · outdoing · topping · besting · outmatching · overshadowing · outweighing · upstaging
overpowering
Too intense to withstand
- conqueringDefeating and taking control
- defeatingOvercoming in competition
- crushingOverwhelming in intensity
subduing · vanquishing · routing · overwhelming · trouncing · demolishing · annihilating · thrashing · dominating · mastering
ruffing
Playing trump on non-trump
- trick-takingWinning dealt card rounds
- following suitImitating another's action
- bridgeStructure spanning an obstacle
whist · euchre · spades · hearts · pinochle · declarer · finesse · slam · bidding · contract
overriding
Of chief importance
- supersedingReplacing with something newer
- outweighingExceeding in importance
- nullifyingMaking of no effect
invalidating · canceling · displacing · preempting · overruling · supplanting · subordinating · negating · countermanding
- card gamespoker, blackjack, solitaire, hearts, spades
- bridge playsfinesse, ruff, discard, endplay, squeeze
- outperformingsurpassing, exceeding, excelling, outperforming, outdoing
- showboatingshowing off, bragging, boasting, grandstanding, posturing
- Replacement termsreplacing, supplanting, displacing, swap, switch
- revivalismrevivals, revivalism, revivalist, revivalists, camp meeting
trumpinglosing
Failing to win
yielding · submitting · conceding · surrendering · capitulating
trumpingfollowing suit
Imitating another's action
ducking · discarding · underplaying · sluffing · sloughing
- trumping upInventing false accusations
trumpet, trump, trumped, trumps, trumpery, overtrump, trumped-up, trump up