0 present participle of trump
1 If you trump another player's card, you beat it with a card that belongs to the group of cards that has been chosen to have the highest value in the game you are playing.
This is the military necessity argument, namely, the trumping of doctors' independent ethical judgment by military necessity.
In some respects, the overall discussion is reminiscent of the sealing controversy of the 1970s and 1980s, especially regarding the trumping of scientific information by politics.
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.
