tripped
past simple and past participle of
trip
Meaning of tripped in English
(Definition of tripped from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of tripped
tripped
He tripped onto his bike and broke a leg.
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In the process, three of the classic triggers have been tripped, and others have palpably moved.
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For limited aspects of the study, the boundary layer was tripped with sandpaper rings, 0.4 cm wide and 0.08 cm thick.
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Accented or special characters and hyphenation were some of the pitfalls (not to mention other scripts) that tripped up early software.
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Smoke is injected into the test-wall boundary layer through a slot located a t the step where this boundary layer is tripped (see figure 2).
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But we should not be tripped up on ideology.
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But at least he did not make the mistake of looking so far back that he tripped over that which was in front of him.
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I have tripped over them in the streets.
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This appears to have tripped off the automatic switches on a number of circuits to prevent danger and damage from overloading.
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It is wrong to feed diseased animals—not animals that have broken a forelock or have tripped, become concussed and then died—to hounds.
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We have not a skilled draftsman at our disposal, and it is conceivable that frequently we could be tripped up on words.
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One could think of many other examples of that sort of thing that have been tripped out over the past two weeks.
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There was the case of the blind man who tripped over something in his way, and fell and was injured.
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One is always afraid of being tripped procedurally.
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So far, after 22 years, nobody has yet tripped me up.
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