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tumble - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To perform acrobatic feats such as somersaults, rolls, or twists.
- intransitive verb To fall, roll, or move end over end.
- intransitive verb To spill, roll out, or emerge in confusion or disorder.
- intransitive verb To pitch headlong; fall.
- intransitive verb To move quickly or awkwardly.
- intransitive verb To hang down.
- intransitive verb To collapse.
- intransitive verb To undergo a decline in position, status, or fortune.
- intransitive verb To decrease.
- intransitive verb To come upon accidentally; happen on.
- intransitive verb Slang To come to a sudden understanding; catch on.
- intransitive verb To cause to fall or collapse; bring down.
- intransitive verb To put, spill, or toss haphazardly.
- intransitive verb To toss or whirl in a drum, tumbler, or tumbling box.
- intransitive verb To cause to lose position, status, or fortune.
- noun An act of tumbling; a fall.
- noun A decrease, as in value.
- noun A confused or disordered collection or amount of something.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To roll about by turning one way and another; toss; pitch about; wallow: as, he tumbles and tosses from pain; the tumbling sea.
- To lose footing or support and fall to the ground; come down suddenly and violently; be precipitated; as, to
tumble from a scaffold. - To move or go in a rough, careless, or headlong manner.
- To play mountebank tricks by various springs, balancings, posturings, and contortions of the body.
- To dance.
- To fall rapidly, as prices: as, fancy stocks have tumbled.
- To turn in; go to bed.
- Nautical to come up hastily and in a scrambling way through the hatchway on a ship's deck, as a sailor or a number of sailors together: as, the starboard watch tumbled up.
- To turn over; toss about as for examination or search; revolve in one's mind: usually with over.
- To disorder; rumple: as, to
tumble bedclothes. - To throw by chance or with violence; fling; pitch.
- To bring down; overturn or overthrow; cast to the ground; fling headlong.
- To polish by revolution in a tumbling-box.
- noun A fall; a rolling or turning over; a somersault.
- noun A state of entanglement or confusion.
- noun Same as
tumbling-box .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Act of tumbling, or rolling over; a fall.
- transitive verb To turn over; to turn or throw about, as for examination or search; to roll or move in a rough, coarse, or unceremonious manner; to throw down or headlong; to precipitate; -- sometimes with
over ,about , etc.. - transitive verb To disturb; to rumple.
- intransitive verb To roll over, or to and fro; to throw one's self about.
- intransitive verb To roll down; to fall suddenly and violently; to be precipitated.
- intransitive verb To play tricks by various movements and contortions of the body; to perform the feats of an acrobat.
- intransitive verb (Naut.) to incline inward, as the sides of a vessel, above the bends or extreme breadth; -- used esp. in the phrase
tumbling home . Cf.Wall-sided .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
fall - verb intransitive To
fall end over end. - verb To perform gymnastics such as somersaults, rolls, and handsprings.
- verb To
roll over and over. - verb informal To have
sexual intercourse . - verb transitive To smooth and polish a rough surface on relatively small parts.
- verb To
muss , to makedisorderly totousle .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English tumblen, frequentative of tumben, to dance about, from Old English tumbian.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Middle English tumblen; frequentative of Middle English tumben, from Old English tumbian.
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Examples
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You might see the houses _tumble, tumble, tumble_, from one end of the street to the other, with a great crash, leaving the foundations open to the view of the heavens. "[
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 271, September 1, 1827 Various
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I let the word tumble out of my mouth as I made a vow to stay aware of what I was saying.
Good Fortune Noni Carter 2010
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I let the word tumble out of my mouth as I made a vow to stay aware of what I was saying.
Good Fortune Noni Carter 2010
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I let the word tumble out of my mouth as I made a vow to stay aware of what I was saying.
Good Fortune Noni Carter 2010
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I let the word tumble out of my mouth as I made a vow to stay aware of what I was saying.
Good Fortune Noni Carter 2010
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To sponsor him, visit www. justgiving.com/runstamfordrun Salomon Kalou urges team-mates to raise their game and avoid a title tumble at Tottenham We are ready to put tired bodies on the line for Carlo Ancelotti, says Florent Malouda
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That show took quite a tumble from the Number 21 slot where it ended after its second season.
September « 2009 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy 2009
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That show took quite a tumble from the Number 21 slot where it ended after its second season.
10 « September « 2009 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy 2009
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And in any case, America can hardly afford to prolong its tumble from the summit of educational attainment any longer.
Wonk Room » Study: Pre-School Investments Increase GDP And Pay For Themselves 2009
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That show took quite a tumble from the Number 21 slot where it ended after its second season.
Ratings Results – Looking Back at the Final Results for Last Season 2009
Related Words
synonyms (249)
Words with the same meaning
- alight upon
- apprehend
- arsy-varsiness
- ball up
- bite the dust
- blow down
- blow over
- blunder
- blunder upon
- blur
- blur distinctions
- bollix up
- bow
- bowl down
- bowl over
- break up
- breakdown
- bring down
- bulldog
- bump into
- capsize
- careen
- career
- cast down
- catch on
- chance upon
- chop down
- clutter
- collapse
- come a cropper
- come across
- come down
- come on
- come up against
- come upon
- comedown
- comprehend
- confound
- confuse
- crash
- cropper
- crumble
- crumble to dust
- culbute
- cut down
- dash down
- deck
- deflation
- descend
- dig
- disarrange
- discover serendipitously
- dishevel
- disintegrate
- disturb
- dive
- down
- downfall
- drop
- dump
- encounter
- fall
- fall down
- fall flat
- fall headlong
- fall in with
- fall over
- fall prostrate
- fall to pieces
- falter
- farrago
- fell
- fetch down
- fidget
- flip out
- floor
- flop
- flounce
- flounder
- flutter
- forced landing
- foul up
- freak out on
- fumble
- garble
- get a cropper
- get high on
- glow
- go down
- go pitapat
- go to pieces
- go under
- ground
- grovel
- happen upon
- hash
- have enough
- have the fidgets
- have the shakes
- header
- heave
- helter-skelter
- hew down
- higgledy-piggledy
- hit upon
- hobbyhorse
- hodgepodge
- hysteron proteron
- jerk
- jumble
- jumble together
- keel over
- knock down
- labor
- lay level
- lay low
- lay out
- level
- lick the dust
- light upon
- list
- litter
- lose
- lose out
- lose the day
- lurch
- make heavy weather
- mash
- meet up with
- meet with
- mess
- mishmash
- mix
- mix up
- mow down
- muck up
- muddle
- nose dive
- overlook distinctions
- overturn
- palpitate
- pant
- perceive
- pi
- pitch
- pitch and plunge
- pitch and toss
- play hob with
- plunge
- pound
- pratfall
- precipitate
- prostrate
- pull down
- quake
- quaver
- quiver
- rase
- raze
- rear
- reel
- riffle
- rock
- roll
- rummage
- rumple
- run across
- run into
- run up against
- say uncle
- scend
- scramble
- screw up
- see the light
- seethe
- send headlong
- shake
- shiver
- shuffle
- slip
- slump
- smash
- snafu
- snarl up
- spill
- sprawl
- spread-eagle
- squirm
- stagger
- struggle
- stumble
- stumble on
- stumble upon
- succumb
- supinate
- sway
- swell
- swell with emotion
- swing
- tailspin
- take a fall
- take a flop
- take a header
- take a pratfall
- take a spill
- take down
- take the count
- thrash about
- thrill
- thrill to
- throb
- throw
- throw down
- tilt
- tingle
- tingle with excitement
- topple
- topple down
- topple over
- topsy-turviness
- topsy-turvydom
- toss
- toss and tumble
- toss and turn
- totter
- tousle
- tremble
- trip
- tumble on
- tumble to
- turmoil
- turn on to
- turn turtle
- twist and turn
- twitch
- understand
- unholy mess
- upset
- volutation
- wallop
- wallow
- welter
- whack down
- wiggle
- wise up
- wriggle
- writhe
- yaw
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