overtripping

Verb

overtrip (third-person singular simple present overtrips, present participle overtripping, simple past and past participle overtripped)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To skip nimbly or lightly over.
   • She does not ride rough shod over people, but she gently overtrips them with her little pointed French heels, and leaves wounds in all the hearts that have opened to receive her.1901 May, Ellizabeth Duer, “Phases of the Lady”, in The Junior Munsey, volume 10, number 2, page 197
2. To stumble and fall over
   • I overtripped thy feelers far outstretched And fell , kerwhango , down upon my head , Raising a scar that time can ne'er efface !1886, Puck - Volume 20, page 23
3. To move where another is also moving or occur at the same time as another is occurring; to fail to coordinate (with)
   • Wherever we stopped, wherever we went, crowds of people overtripping one another came to gaze at the President's bride .1886, Laura Carter Holloway, The Ladies of the White House, page 110
4. To burgeon so as to exceed a limit.
   • All its sweetness, its wild purity, its slow, sorrowful strength, and its sudden overtripping, overmastering joy , drifted out upon the sunshine of the meadow, the varied phrases coming turn and turn about with long intervening silences, as though the singer ruminated on all the beauty before her...1912, Tickner Edwardes, Neighbourhood: A Year's Life in and about an English Village, page 135
5. To tip a balance.
   • He overtrips the balances, takes his sodas from months-old cardboard cartons, and uses local tap water already highly alkaline.1946, American Photography - Volume 40, page 38
6. To be oversensitive in triggering a fail-safe mechanism, especially to incorrectly activate or trip a circuit breaker.
   • In order not to overtrip for faults behind the relay, it should be set to allow a CTI of about 0.6 second .1992, Stanley H. Horowitz, Protective Relaying for Power Systems II, page 131

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