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Synonyms for trip
Synonyms for trip: stumble, journey, slip and trigger. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 4 synonyms for trip
Interchangeable with trip in this sense
Audited under trip's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one trip carries in that sense.
- stumblenoun, in the sense "an unintentional but embarrassing blunder"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name trip as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
The first group is filed under trip's own sense. The second reach trip from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside them is that word's.
an unintentional but embarrassing blunder
He recited the whole poem without a single trip.
The true synonym
stumble
Same sentence, swapped: He recited the whole poem without a single stumble.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for trip in the sentence quoted.
- bull
- spectacle
- fell
Where trip turns up in the game
trip is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in five other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 5 puzzles where trip is the trap
- listverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is name, in the sense "give or make a list of", with trip sitting one tile away.
- fearverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is dread, in the sense "be afraid or scared of", so trip is there to be ruled out.
- listnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is lean, in the sense "the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical", with trip sitting one tile away.
- mistakenoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is misunderstanding, in the sense "an understanding of something that is not correct", so trip is there to be ruled out.
Play trip
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so trip reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other actions words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. trip carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.