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Tumble   /tˈəmbəl/   Listen
Tumble

noun
1.
An acrobatic feat of rolling or turning end over end.
2.
A sudden drop from an upright position.  Synonyms: fall, spill.
verb
(past & past part. tumbled; pres. part. tumbling)
1.
Fall down, as if collapsing.  Synonym: topple.
2.
Cause to topple or tumble by pushing.  Synonyms: tip, topple.
3.
Roll over and over, back and forth.
4.
Fly around.  Synonyms: whirl, whirl around.  "Rising smoke whirled in the air"
5.
Fall apart.  Synonyms: break down, collapse, crumble, crumple.  "Negotiations broke down"
6.
Throw together in a confused mass.
7.
Understand, usually after some initial difficulty.  Synonyms: catch on, cotton on, get it, get onto, get wise, latch on, twig.
8.
Fall suddenly and sharply.
9.
Put clothes in a tumbling barrel, where they are whirled about in hot air, usually with the purpose of drying.
10.
Suffer a sudden downfall, overthrow, or defeat.
11.
Do gymnastics, roll and turn skillfully.



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"Tumble" Quotes from Famous Books



... psychological and not in post-impressionist English, is fairly intelligible. But it does not touch the root of the matter. Miss Stein, the writer continues, uses "words that appeal to her as having the meaning they seem to have [that is, if "diuturnity" suggests a tumble downstairs, it means a tumble downstairs]. To present her impressions she chooses words for their inherent quality rather ...
— Definitions • Henry Seidel Canby
... you will appreciate my devotion; in a tumble-down old house, near the ramparts. But you, my prince, how did you get out of the Louvre? How was it that I found you on the road, with M. d'Aubigne ...
— Chicot the Jester - [An abridged translation of "La dame de Monsoreau"] • Alexandre Dumas
... Totty said in a low voice, nodding to the bed. 'Just when I was going back to work, what did the child do but tumble head over heels half down stairs, running after me. It's a wonder she don't kill herself. I don't think there's no more harm done except a big bump on the back of the head, but Mrs. Ladds wasn't in, and I didn't like to go and leave the little thing; she cried herself to ...
— Thyrza • George Gissing
... mind recognized that one was a gentleman, and the other—well, "a fashionable young man," as she would phrase it. The one, as a friend, would shield her from every detracting breath; the other, if given a chance, would inevitably tumble into some slough of infamy himself, and drag her ...
— A Face Illumined • E. P. Roe
... been sitting outside a small tavern, opposite the Porte Montmartre, with a bottle of wine between them, their elbows resting on the grimy top of a rough wooden table. They had talked in whispers, for even the walls of the tumble-down cabaret might ...
— The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel • Baroness Orczy


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