trip up

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verb fail, make a mistake

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Word Origin & History

late 14c. (implied in tripper), "tread or step lightly, skip, caper," from Old French tripper "strike with the feet" (12c.), from a Germanic source (cf. Middle Dutch trippen "to skip, trip, hop," Low German trippeln, Frisian tripje, Dutch trappen, Old English treppan "to tread, trample") related to trap.

The sense of "strike with the foot and cause to stumble" is first recorded early 15c. Meaning "to release" (a catch, lever, etc.) is recorded from 1897; trip-wire is attested from 1916. Related: Tripped; tripping.

Example Sentences for trip up

Probably some travellers had arrived from a trip up the country.

The men all laughed heartily, and tried to trip up the pursuer.

Courtesy is just love in little things, but it is in the little things that we trip up.

The trip up the river in January is by no means a pleasure one.

I took a trip up to Oroya over the wonderful Meiggs railway.

We are planning a trip up the Maggiore to-morrow, and we have to have a cake to take with us.

We are planning a trip up the Maggiore tomorrow, and we have to have a cake to take with us.

As a wind-up to the season they'd taken her on a yachtin' trip up the coast.

We must induce him to quit the chair of office, and take a trip up the river this spring.

When I got to Jacksonville, I heard that you had gone on a trip up the river.

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falter

faltered

faltering

flounder

floundered

floundering

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faltered

faltering

flounder

floundered

floundering

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falter