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Tumbling   /tˈəmbəlɪŋ/  /tˈəmblɪŋ/   Listen
Tumbling

noun
1.
The gymnastic moves of an acrobat.  Synonym: acrobatics.


Tumble

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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"Tumbling" Quotes from Famous Books



... of your starry eyes, Your lips that seem on roses fed, Your breasts, where Cupid tumbling lies, Nor sleeps for kissing of ...
— The Golden Treasury - Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language • Various
... picturesque effect. The cemetery in all Turkish towns is a favourite place of public resort, but I cannot say that it is kept in very nice order, as a rule. For the sake of a water-colour sketch I made in one, I was very glad that the upright headstones were tumbling about in all directions, it took away the look of stiffness and monotony; but I am bound to say that the graves looked neglected as well as picturesque. The cemetery at Pera had too much refuse, and too many cocks, hens, and dogs in it. It looked very pretty, however, from my windows, ...
— Miscellanea • Juliana Horatia Ewing
... roar of cannon seemed to tear their ear-drums—another—and another—everywhere about them. With one mind five hundred imaginative workmen dropped their weapons from nerveless hands and fled, bumping, tumbling, fighting each other. A voiceless flow of chaotic clamour marked their course toward ...
— The Return of Blue Pete • Luke Allan
... on forever, overwhelmed Petter Nord with reproaches, killed him with curses; but the latter tore himself away and ran, as if an earthquake had shaken the town and all the houses were tumbling down. ...
— Invisible Links • Selma Lagerlof
... children may be seen setting out towards the woods to gather green boughs. After dipping these in water they return home in triumph and place them before the doors of those who were not 'up with the lark' in such a manner that, when these long sleepers open them, the wet green boughs will come tumbling down upon their heads. Very often, too, the children pursue the late risers, and beat them with the branches, jeering at them the while, and singing about the laziness of the sluggard. These old songs have undergone very many variations, and nowadays one ...
— Dutch Life in Town and Country • P. M. Hough


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