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tumble
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Word definitions for tumble in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES curls fall/tumble (= hang down ) ▪ The child's golden curls fell around her shoulders. rough and tumble ▪ the rough and tumble of public life tumble dryer COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB backwards ▪ They tumbled ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "to perform as an acrobat," also "to fall down," perhaps from a frequentative form of Old English tumbian "dance about, tumble, leap." This is of unknown origin but apparently related to Middle Low German tummelen "to turn, dance," Dutch tuimelen ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. fall down, as if collapsing; "The tower of the World Trade Center tumbled after the plane hit it" [syn: topple ] cause to topple or tumble by pushing [syn: topple , tip ] roll over and over, back and forth fly around; "The clothes tumbled in the dryer"; ...
Usage examples of tumble.
The wharf guards are so used to seeing me shuffle past, they would not notice if Abri turned tumbles under my coat.
The Knights who rode guard on the carriage shouted in surprise as the two tumbled to the street, but they were no more adventurous than the ones inside.
Standing up abruptly, he tumbled a startled Noel off his lap, catching her and setting her on her feet before she landed in aheap on the floor.
Not surprisingly, Ake lost his balance and tumbled to the ground, disappearing under hundreds of kilos of insistent scout dogs.
Halting at last, Rolan opened a narrow door and disappeared into the darkness beyond, whispering for Alec to watch his step just in time to save the boy from tumbling down more stairs that descended less than a pace from the door.
When all efforts had failed, Seregil had tumbled into it beside Alec and fallen asleep almost at once.
She smelled the ammoniac odor of the big beast, even as she plunged, face down, into a tumble of leaf-drift.
Then it shook the shell hard until the ammonite, still alive, tumbled out into the water, naked for the first time in its life.
With each mortal wound, an amphibian pitched writhing into space and tumbled flailing against those behind.
And he the wind-whipped, anywhither wave Crazily tumbled on a shingle-grave To waste in foam.
Noetic shreds, arkose shards, biotite fragments tumbling and grinding in a dry breccia slurry.
He entered the next cellar and picked his way through a tumbled mass of ceiling that threw up sparks as his asbestos boots encountered it.
In Bradwell, Jane returned to her day school after the Easter holiday, Gerald continued to regard me with mute adoration, and spring flowers and shrubs began to bring great splashes of color to the green and brown gardens of Silverwood, first the daffodils, then the tulips, the aubrietia tumbling over dwarf walls, and the camellias with great blossoms of pink and red.
Breakfast dishes went flying, shattering, mess tables upended, lockers spilled open, and in the belowdeck barbettes, massive gun turrets tore free from their housings and tumbled grindingly down the slanting platforms, crushing crewmen.
As the glow faded, the stone blocks of bauxite began to fall away, no longer cemented, tumbling down into a pit hidden below the hearth.