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Definition: TRUMPED |
TRUMPEDImperative & past participle1. Of Trump |
Date "TRUMPED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deception | Untrue; mock, sham, make-believe, counterfeit, snide, pseudo, spurious, supposititious, so-called, pretended, feigned, trumped up, bogus, scamped, fraudulent, tricky, factitious;bastard; surreptitious, illegitimate, contraband, adulterated, sophisticated; unsound, rotten at the core; colorable; disguised; meretricious, tinsel, pinchbeck, plated; catchpenny; Brummagem. |
Untruth | Invention, fabrication, fiction; fable, nursery tale; romance; (imagination); absurd story, untrue story, false story, trumped up story, trumped up statement; thing devised by the enemy; canard; shave, sell, hum, traveler;s tale, Canterbury tale, cock and bull story, fairy tale, fake; claptrap. |
Adjective: untrue, false, phony, trumped up; void of foundation, without-foundation; fictive, far from the truth, false as dicer's oaths; unfounded, ben trovato, invented, fabulous, fabricated, forged; fictitious, factitious, supposititious, surreptitious; elusory, illusory; ironical; soi-disant; (misnamed). | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | Trumped tight, all day, every day (No Diggity; performing artist: Blackstreet) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "TRUMPED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 47.83% of the time. "TRUMPED" is used about 23 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 47.83% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 47.83% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 4.35% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 23 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "TRUMPED": trumped-up. | |
Ending with "TRUMPED": over-trumped. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "TRUMPED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tekaistu (fictitious, trumped up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | trumpfte, getrumpft. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σκευωρία (cabal, concoction, fabrication, frame up, machination, scheme, trumped up charges), ψευτές κατηγορίες (trumped up charges). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | でっち上' (but, exhausted, fabrication, frame-up, however, logy, lovestruck, put-up job, so, then, trumped-up story, well, well then). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | でっちあ' (fabrication, frame-up, put-up job, trumped-up story). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | umpedtray сфабрикованный (forged, trumped-up), сфабрикованное обвинение (trumped-up charges). (various references) uppdiktad (fabled, fake, fictional, fictitious, invented, made up, trumped up), konstruerad (constructed, made, trumped-up). (various references) uyduruk (fake, fictitious, invented, made up, trumped-up), uydurma (adjustment, apocryphal, arranging, cardboard box, coinage, colorable, concoction, fabled, fabrication, fabulous, fake, false, falsification, fib, fiction, fictitious, fictive, figment, fitting, flam, gold brick, improvisation, improvised, invention, made up, making up, mendacious, out of whole cloth, quack, tosh, trumped-up, tuning, untrue, untruth, untruthful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "TRUMPED": outtrumped, overtrumped. (additional references) | |
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"TRUMPED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: rumped, trampen, trampey, Tromper, trumpa, trumpe, Trumpee, trumper, trunked, trupped. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "TRUMPED" (pronounced tru"mpt) |
| 4 | -u" m p t | bumped, dumped, humped, jumped, lumped, plumped, pumped, slumped, stumped, thumped. |
| 3 | -m p t | attempt, camped, clamped, contempt, cramped, crimped, damped, decamped, encamped, exempt, limped, preempt, prompt, revamped, stamped, stomped, swamped, tempt, unkempt. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-m-p-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: dumper, tumped. | |
-2 letters: demur, drupe, duper, erupt, mured, muted, muter, perdu, prude, trued, trump, umped. | |
-3 letters: derm, drum, duet, dump, dupe, dure, mure, mute, perm, pert, pure, rude, rued, rump, temp, term, true, tump, turd. | |
-4 letters: due, dup, emu, med, met, mud, mut, ped, per, pet, pud, pur, put, red, rem, rep, ret, rue. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-m-p-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: dumpster, permuted. | |
+2 letters: dumpsters, imprudent, triumphed, trumpeted. | |
+3 letters: importuned, outtrumped, recomputed, unprompted, untempered. | |
+4 letters: computerdom, imprudently, outpromised, overtrumped, precomputed, prejudgment, proctodaeum, promptitude, promulgated. | |
+5 letters: computerdoms, computerised, computerized, mousetrapped, multipronged, outperformed, perambulated, prejudgments, proctodaeums, promptitudes, superstardom, underpayment. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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