Trip Up

Definition: Trip Up

Trip Up

Verb

1. Detect a blunder or misstep: "The reporter tripped up the senator".

2. Cause to stumble.

3. Make an error.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Trip Up

Deception

Decoy, waylay, lure, beguile, delude, inveigle; entrap, intrap, ensnare; nick, springe; set a trap, lay a trap, lay a snare for; bait the hook, forelay, spread the toils, lime; trapan, trepan; kidnap; let in, hook in; nousle, nousel; blind a trail; enmesh, immesh; shanghai; catch, catch in a trap; sniggle, entangle, illaqueate, hocus, escamoter, practice on one's credulity; hum, humbug; gammon, stuff up, sell; play a trick upon one, play a practical joke upon one, put something over on one, put one over on; balk, trip up, throw a tub to a whale; fool to the top of one's bent, send on a fool's errand; make game, make a fool of, make an April fool of, make an ass of; trifle with, cajole, flatter; come over; (influence); gild the pill, make things pleasant, divert, put a good face upon; dissemble.

Success

Silence, quell, nonsuit, checkmate, upset, confound, nonplus, stalemate, trump; baffle; (hinder); circumvent, elude; trip up, trip up the heels of; drive into a corner, drive to the wall; run hard, put one's nose out of joint.

Dog sled trip up the 141st Meridian to the Arctic Ocean International Boundary Party under Assistant John H. Turner Traveled from Porcupine to Arctic Ocean and back in 18 days A round trip of over 400 miles --- lowest temperature was -50 Fahrenheit March 27 to April 14, 1890. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

The First trip up. Credit: Library of Congress.

Spring pulpwood drive in Brown Company lumber holdings in Maine. On its return trip up Mooselookmeguntic Lake, the steamer tows an empty boom to be refilled for the next days load. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Albanian

pengohem (stumble over, trip), pengesë (balk, bar, barrier, baulk, block, boom, chock, clog, cramp, crash barrier, cumber, detention, difficulty, dike, disadvantage, drag, drawback, encumbrance, fetter, handicap, hedge, hindrance, hitch, hold up, holdback, hurdle, impediment, interference, interruption, jamming, liability, manacle, mash, obstacle, obstruction, preclusion, pullback, retardation, retardment, rub, setback, stay, stoppage, stumbling block, stumbling-stone, stunt, traverse). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فشل (balk, be failed, be unable to do, be unsuccessful, come to nothing, cower, defeat, dud, fail, failure, fiasco, fizzle out, flop, frustration, go awry, go wrong, lose courage, lose ground, lose heart, make a hash of it, miscarry, miss, miss fire, miss the mark, torpedo, unsuccess, washout), ‏طرح أرضا (fling, toss), ‏أخطأ (err, fluff, fumble, go wrong, goof, make a mistake, misfire, miss, mistake, sin, slip, stumble). (various references)

Bulgarian 

препъвам, подлагам крак на. (various references)

Czech

podrazit nohy. (various references)

French

se tromper, gaffer, faire une erreur, faire trébucher, désarçonner, échouer. (various references)

German

haken (belaying pin, catch, check, crotchet, crotchets, crux, cruxes, grappling iron, hash, hash up, hitch, hook, hooks, peg, snag, stick). (various references)

Greek 

τρικλοποδιά (tripping up). (various references)

Hebrew 

למעו�" (slip, stumble, totter, trip, tumble), ל�"מעי�" (trip), ל�"כשיל (cause failure, flunk, impede, lead astray, make err, stump, thwart, trip). (various references)

Hungarian

gáncs (reflection, slur, stricture, trip), felvág (cut open, cut up, saw up, slice, splurge, to get on one's high horse, to give oneself airs, to lance, to open up, to put it on, to put on airs, to put on dog, to ride one's high horse, to ride the high horse, to shoot a line, to show off, to side, to slit, to splurge, to sport, to talk large, to throw one's weight about, to throw one's weight around, to throw the bull), elgáncsol (to circumvent, to frustrate sy, to put the crimp in, to thwart, to trip, to trip up, trip). (various references)

Italian

inciampare (stub, stumble, trip, trip over). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�'す (to beat, to blow down, to bring down, to cheat, to defeat, to fell, to kill, to knock down, to leave unpaid, to overthrow, to ruin, to throw down, to trip up). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たおす (to beat, to blow down, to bring down, to cheat, to defeat, to fell, to kill, to knock down, to leave unpaid, to overthrow, to ruin, to throw down, to trip up). (various references)

Pig Latin

iptray upay.(various references)

Russian 

ставить подножку, спотыкаться (falter, tripped), запинаться (falter, hobble, hum and haw), произносить с запинкой, подножка (footboard, running board). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

saplitati, saplitanje (trip). (various references)

Spanish

tropezar (encounter, fall on, fall upon, happen on, light, run into, trip over, walk in), hundir (plunge, run down, sag, scupper, sink, swamp, wreck), hacer una falta (be on the wrong tack, kill the goose that lays golden eggs, trip), hacer tropezar (trip), hacer caer (knock off, push down, push over, settle, spill, tip up, topple, trap, trip, tumble, tumble over), equivocarse (bark up the wrong tree, be on the wrong tack, deceive, deceive oneself, err, go wrong, lapse, make a mistake, misbelieve, misdo, mistake, slip up, trip), echar una zancadilla, dar un tropezón (trip, trip over), coger (accept, arrest, bag, captivate, capture, catch, catch hold of, clutch, cop, develop, fetch, frig, gather, get, get hold of, go down, grab, grapple, grasp, grip, hit off, hold, hook, hunch, imbibe, land, lay hold of, lift, nab, nail, nobble, pick, pick up, pinch, pluck, seize, take, take on, take out, take up, toss, touch, treat, trip, yank off), caer (catch on, come down, crumble, decline, demise, droop, drop, fall, fall down, fall off, fall on, fall out, fall over, go, go down, hang, like, live, loll, plunge, set, sink, tilt, tip over, trip, trip over, tumble, tumble down). (various references)

Swedish

sätta krokben för, få att snubbla. (various references)

Turkish

çelme takmak (trip). (various references)

Welsh

disodli (supplant). (various references)

supplantare. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: puri, trip.

-3 letters: pip, pit, piu, pup, pur, put, rip, rut, tip, tui, tup.

-4 letters: it, pi, ti, up, ut.

+3 letters: impromptu, peripatus, potpourri, pourpoint, preputial.

+4 letters: impromptus, perpetuity, popularity, potpourris, pourpoints, prenuptial, propitious, propositus, puppetries, purporting, suppertime, supporting, supportive, supraoptic.

+5 letters: antipopular, inopportune, opportunism, opportunist, opportunity, outcropping, outdropping, outstripped, peripatuses, perspicuity, pittosporum, pluripotent, precipitous, presumption, presumptive, promptitude, propinquity, superpolite, superprofit, superscript, suppertimes, suppository, suppurating, suppuration, suppurative, unstrapping.