trumping
present participle oftrump
| 单词 | trumping |
| 释义 | trumping present participle oftrump trump verb[T] uk/trʌmp/us/trʌmp/If you trump another player'scard, youbeatit with acardthatbelongsto thegroupofcardsthat has beenchosento have thehighestvaluein thegameyou areplaying. tobeatsomeone or something by doing orproducingsomethingbetter: Their $60 millionbidfor thecompanywas trumped at the lastmomentby anofferforalmosttwiceas much fromtheirmaincompetitor. Card games
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Winning and defeating Phrasal verbtrumpsomethingup Examplesoftrumpingtrumping In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. This is the military necessity argument, namely, thetrumpingof doctors' independent ethical judgment by military necessity. From theCambridge English Corpus In some respects, the overall discussion is reminiscent of the sealing controversy of the 1970s and 1980s, especially regarding thetrumpingof scientific information by politics. From theCambridge English Corpus The difficulties that arise from the coexistence of convention law and customary international law include the problem of the peremptory norm 'trumping' any convention-based agreement, as noted above. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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