overtrip (English, verb)
expansion: overtrip (third-person singular simple present overtrips, present participle overtripping, simple past and past participle overtripped)
Senses:
glosses: To trip over nimbly; to skip lightly over.
tags: obsolete
transitive
glosses: To stumble and fall over
glosses: To move where another is also moving or occur at the same time as another is occurring; to fail to coordinate (with)
glosses: To burgeon so as to exceed a limit.
glosses: To tip a balance.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: To be oversensitive in triggering a fail-safe mechanism, especially to incorrectly activate or trip a circuit breaker.
Forms:
form: overtrips
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: overtripping
tags: participle
present
form: overtripped
tags: participle
past
form: overtripped
tags: past