tumble

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  1. intransitive verb To perform acrobatic feats such as somersaults, rolls, or twists.
  2. intransitive verb To fall or roll end over end: The kittens tumbled over each other.
  3. intransitive verb To spill or roll out in confusion or disorder: Students tumbled out of the bus.
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  • She claims she dropped her torch in the rough and tumble, which is probably true since I found it this morning. —  Cargo of Eagles - Margery Allingham - Campion 21: 1968
  • The speed of crude's tumble -- to about $64 a barrel -- has unnerved officials despite the apparent cushion. —  Dealbreaker
  • It really seems as if my tumble was a most lucky thing. —  A Bicycle of Cathay
  • Although state revenues continue to tumble, the Oklahoma Ethics Commission should not be expected ...
  • Madonna's latest tumble is her second horse accident in four years —  BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
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Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

plunge ·  jumble ·  swirl ·  leap ·  splash ·  thud ·  rumble ·  surge ·  crash ·  lurch ·  clatter ·  scramble

Used in the same contextWord Family

tumble:   tumbled ·  tumbling ·  tumbles
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English tumblen, frequentative of tumben, to dance about, from Old English tumbian.

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  1. English dial, also tummle; from Middle English tumblen, tomblen, tumlen =Middle Dutch tumelen, tummelen, tommelen, Dutch tuimelen =Middle Low German tumelen =Old High German tūmilōn, Middle High German tūmeln, tumeln, German taumeln, tummeln =Swedish tumla =Danish tumle, tumble, stagger, wallow; freq. of Middle English tumben, tomben, from Anglo-Saxon tumbian =Old High German tūmōn, Middle High German tumen =Icelandic tumba, dance: see tumb.
  2. from tumble, v.
 

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