trip up vs discover

trip up and discover both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
trip up	No	No	Yes	No
discover	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, discover is a hypernym of trip up; that is, discover is a word with a broader meaning than trip up:

Other hypernyms of trip up include find out, get a line, get wind, get word, hear, learn, pick up, see.

trip up (verb)	discover (verb)
detect a blunder or misstep	get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
make an error	identify as in botany or biology, for example
cause to stumble	make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
	make a discovery, make a new finding
	see for the first time; make a discovery
	discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of by perception with the eyes
	find unexpectedly