"trump up" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-trump up.ogg [Australia] Forms: trumps up [present, singular, third-person], trumping up [participle, present], trumped up [participle, past], trumped up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} trump up (third-person singular simple present trumps up, present participle trumping up, simple past and past participle trumped up)
  1. (idiomatic) To create falsely, to fabricate (particularly applied to accusations, (legal) charges or evidence). Tags: idiomatic Translations (create falsely, fabricate): tekaista (Finnish), keksiä (Finnish), фабриковать (fabrikovatʹ) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-trump_up-en-verb-lNMD7PXY Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (up) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 82 18 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (up): 80 20 Disambiguation of 'create falsely, fabricate': 96 4
  2. (idiomatic) Heavily publicise, promote or market a product. Tags: idiomatic Translations (heavily publicise, promote or market a product): ylimainostaa (Finnish), рекламировать (reklamirovatʹ) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-trump_up-en-verb-m0sx0Hqn Disambiguation of 'heavily publicise, promote or market a product': 1 99
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: trumped-up

Inflected forms

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