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Definition: Trip Up |
Trip UpVerb1. 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 UpSynonyms: blunder (v), catch (v), slip up (v), stumble (v), trip (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
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. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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![]() | 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. | |||
| Language | Translations for "trip up"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
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) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | supplantare. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-p-p-r-t-u" | |
-2 letters: puri, trip. | |
-3 letters: pip, pit, piu, pup, pur, put, rip, rut, tip, tui, tup. | |
-4 letters: it, pi, ti, up, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-p-p-r-t-u" | |
+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. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Images: Photo Album 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Translations: Ancient 6. Anagrams 7. Bibliography |
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