trump, v. 1. excel, surpass, outstrip, outdo, outperform, outwit, outfox; beat, defeat, checkmate, vanquish, drub, Inf. wallop; top, best, worst, overpower, overcome; get the better of, better, get the upper hand, prevail, nose out, win.
2. trump up fabricate, invent, make out of whole cloth, concoct, cook up; hatch, create, conceive; frame, devise, scheme, make up, fake, contrive, trumpery, n. 1. rubbish, trash, riffraff, Brit. Dial. raff, litter, chaff; refuse, Dial, culch, garbage, waste, debris, detritus, rubble, wreckage; junk, worthless stuff, SI. dreck; bits and pieces, odds and ends, fag ends, remnants; castoffs, rags, tatters, castaways, rejects, discards. 2. nonsense, falderal, gibberish, Jabberwocky; babble, babbling, babblement, Fr. bavardage; twaddle, twaddling, Both Brit, twattle, twattling; blather, blathering, drivel, driveling, drool, drooling; jargon, SI. jive; gobbledegook, foolish humbug, foam, froth, bunkum, SI. bunk, U.S. SI. blah; balderdash, hogwash, swill, SI. horsefeathers; stuff, stuff and nonsense, fudge, foolishness.
-adj. 3. trifling, trivial, insignificant, immaterial, unimportant, twopenny, SI. two-bit, SI. two-by-four; small, puny, little, slight, of no moment.
4. rubbishy, trashy, SI. schlock, poor, base, mean, commonplace; shoddy, shabby, beggarly, scrubby, wretched; worry, second-rate, mediocre, inferior; brummagem, showy, pretentious, ostentatious; flashy, gaudy, garish, meretricious, tawdry; vulgar, cheap, obscene.
trumpet, n. 1. wind instrument, horn, bugle, clarion.
2. wind musician, trumpeter, horn player, bugler.
3. honk, blare, blast, blat. clarion.
-v. 4. honk, blare, blast, blat, blow, bray, bay, bellow.
5. proclaim, announce, herald, promulgate, bruit, noise abroad; cry out, thunder, shout from the housetops. truncate, v. 1. shorten, cut short, cut down, retrench, crop, lop, (both of trees or shrubbery) poll, pollard; abbreviate, abridge, condense; abstract, summarize, digest, epitomize. -adj. 2. truncated, shortened, cut short, cut down, retrenched, reduced, cropped, lopped, polled; abbreviated, abridged, condensed; abstracted, summarized, digested, epitomized, trundle, v. 1. roll, wheel, push. -n. 2. small wheel, roller, caster, trunk, n. 1. tree trunk, stem, stalk, Bot. bole.
2. chest, hope chest, ice chest, coffer, casket, box, cardboard box, storage box, crate, carton; luggage, baggage, suitcase; footlocker, locker, strongbox, safe, repository; container, receptacle, hamper, basket.
3. torso, body; framework, chassis.
4. trunks shorts, gym shorts, athletic shorts, swimming trunks; underwear, SI. skivvies, boxer shorts, jockey shorts. truss, v. tie or tie up, bind or bind up, hogtie, wrap or wrap up, ligate, bandage or bandage up; fasten, attach, join, connect, link, yoke, unite, wed, couple, hook together, splice; secure, moor, fix firmly, make fast; hitch, tether, stake, picket, rope, strap, lash, chain.