betumble

English

Etymology

From be- +‎ tumble.

Verb

betumble (third-person singular simple present betumbles, present participle betumbling, simple past and past participle betumbled)

1. (transitive) To tumble (about); throw into disorder or disarrange the parts of.
   • 1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC; Shakespeare’s Venus & Adonis: […], 4th edition, London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent and Co. […], 1896, →OCLC:

     From her betumbled couch she starteth.

     The spelling has been modernized.

Derived terms

• betumbled

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “betumble”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)