trophied

1. 1
   adjective

   Adorned or decorated with trophies, such as cups, medals, or other tokens won in competition.

   The trophied halls of the old hunting lodge displayed mounted antlers and brass plaques.

   She paused beside the trophied cabinet, its shelves crowded with championship cups.

   Note

   An adjective built from trophy plus -ed, meaning 'furnished with trophies' rather than 'acted upon'. Alexander Pope pairs it with a twin of the same build in An Essay on Man (1734): "The trophied arches, storied halls invade." Storied halls bear stories as trophied arches bear trophies. It compares with more and most, and it sits most naturally before its noun.

2. 2
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of trophy.

   The expedition trophied several rare specimens for the museum's collection.

   The winning team was trophied in a ceremony broadcast nationwide.

   Note

   Two verbs with different grammar share this form. Transitive trophy, to adorn someone with trophies, can be made passive: the team was trophied. Intransitive trophy, to win a trophy, has no passive and builds its perfect with have: she has trophied twice this season. The passive form shades into the adjective "adorned with trophies". That adjective takes more and most, and it describes a state rather than an action.

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