Meaning

1 senses
  1. Faked, fabricated or falsely manufactured.

    These trumped-up charges are unfair to the defendant.

    erdichtet, ausgedacht, erfunden

More definitions
  • concocted with intent to deceive

Translations

1 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
falsely manufactured:

Origin

From the past participle form of the phrasal verb trump up.

From the past participle form of the phrasal verb trump up.

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Forms

more trumped-up, most trumped-up
Comparativemore trumped-up Lesson
Superlativemost trumped-up Lesson

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
trumped-up — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto