Akademik

trip up

verb

1. detect a blunder or misstep (Freq. 1)

- The reporter tripped up the senator

• Syn: ↑catch

• Derivationally related forms: ↑trip-up

• Hypernyms:

• Verb Frames:

- Somebody ——s somebody

2. make an error

- She slipped up and revealed the name

• Syn: ↑stumble, ↑slip up

• Derivationally related forms: ↑trip-up, ↑slip-up (for: ↑slip up), ↑stumble (for: ↑stumble), ↑stumbler (for: ↑stumble)

• Hypernyms: ↑err, ↑mistake, ↑slip

• Verb Frames:

- Somebody ——s

3. cause to stumble

- The questions on the test tripped him up

• Syn: ↑trip

• Derivationally related forms: ↑trip (for: ↑trip)

• Cause: ↑stumble, ↑trip

• Verb Frames:

- Somebody ——s somebody

- Something ——s somebody

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trip up [phrasal verb]

trip up (someone) or trip (someone) up : to cause (someone) to make a mistake

He tried to trip up the cashier as she counted his change.

— see also ↑trip 1b (above), 2

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Main Entry: ↑trip

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ˌtrip ˈup | ˌtrip sbˈup derived

to make a mistake; to deliberately make sb do this

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Read the questions carefully, because the examiners sometimes try to trip you up.

Main entry: ↑trip_derived

Useful english dictionary. 2012.