triumphing

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle of triumph.

   Her new film is triumphing at box offices around the world.

   After triumphing in the final round, the champion raised her arms.

   Note

   The -ing form carries every sense of the verb, including the card-table one: triumphing can also mean playing a trump. Triumph takes no direct object, so a preposition introduces what is beaten or celebrated: triumphing over rivals, triumphing in the final round. The same spelling also works as a countable noun with its own plural, triumphings, for a display of victory.

2. 2
   noununcountable

   An open display or celebration of victory or success.

   The crowd's triumphing echoed through the stadium long after the final whistle.

   His constant triumphing over weaker rivals left him with few real friends.

   Similarrejoicing, exultation, jubilation, gloating, crowing

   Note

   Where triumph names the victory itself, this noun names the show that follows it: the cheering, boasting and parading. It takes a plural, which suits repeated or shared outbursts. In Anthony Trollope's Phineas Finn (1867–68), the Finn family cannot restrain their triumphings at Killaloe. Like gloating, it can tip into criticism when the display goes on too long or comes at a weaker rival's expense.

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