Overtrip
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Overtrip is a verb meaning To stumble and fall over.
Meaning
To stumble and fall over.
More Meanings
- To move where another is also moving or occur at the same time as another is occurring; to fail to coordinate (with)
- To burgeon so as to exceed a limit.
- To tip a balance.
- (electronics) To be oversensitive in triggering a fail-safe mechanism, especially to incorrectly activate or trip a circuit breaker.
- (electronics) An instance of overtripping.
- (obsolete, transitive) To trip over nimbly; to skip lightly over.
Example Sentences
The words cam thickly, now halting and now overtripping each other.
Shot—Who shoots?—Blood? Sulfur—Feet overtrip— Legs overrush — Blood— Fear—Chase— Fly— Yell—
In such a night did Thisbe fearfully overtrip the dew , and saw the lion's shadow ere himself, and ran dismay'd away
Wherever we stopped, wherever we went, crowds of people overtripping one another came to gaze at the President's bride .
Word Forms
- overtrips
- overtripping
- overtripped
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include overtumble, trip, overtrace, snapper, overjump, trip-trap.
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