tumble
31tumble — 1. verb 1) he tumbled over Syn: fall (over), fall down, topple over, lose one s balance, keel over, take a spill, go headlong, go head over heels, trip, stumble; informal come a cropper 2) they all tumbled from the room Syn …
32tumble — v 1. fall down, fall end over end, pitch, pitch forward, precipitate oneself, fall headlong, go down, Inf. take a spill, Inf. take a flyer or a header or a pratfall; slip, stagger, totter, falter, lose one s footing, lose one s equilibrium, Inf.… …
33tumble — [13] Tumble was borrowed from Middle Low German tummelen, which has other relatives in modern German tummeln ‘bustle, hurry’ and taumeln ‘reel, stagger’. All were formed from a base that also found its way into the Romance languages, producing… …
34tumble up — phrasal 1. : to go or come quickly on deck men are still tumbling up from below, racing to their battle stations E.L.Beach 2. dialect : to roll hay into bundles for pitching * * * tumble up 1. To get out of bed 2. To throw into confusion …
35tumble — verb Tumble is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑curl, ↑hair, ↑price, ↑waterfall …
36tumble — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. fall, roll; leap, spring; throw, overturn, disarrange, dishevel, tousle; toss, pitch. See descent, agitation. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. drop, plunge, descend; see fall 1 , topple , trip 1 . III (Roget s …
37tumble on — (Roget s Thesaurus II) I verb To find or meet by chance: bump into, chance on (or upon), come across, come on (or upon), find, happen on (or upon), light on (or upon), run across, run into, stumble on (or upon). Archaic: alight on (or upon).… …
38tumble — Understand or get it. Go to that webpage and then click select all and download to your hard drive. You tumble me? …
39tumble — Understand or get it. Go to that webpage and then click select all and download to your hard drive. You tumble me? …
40tumble to — informal come to understand; realize: → tumble …
