tumble
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Middle English tumblen; frequentative of Middle English tumben, from Old English tumbian.
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
tumble (plural tumbles)
- A fall.
- I took a tumble down the stairs and broke my tooth.
Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
a fall
Verb [edit]
tumble (third-person singular simple present tumbles, present participle tumbling, simple past and past participle tumbled)
- (intransitive) To fall end over end.
- To perform gymnastics such as somersaults, rolls, and handsprings.
- To roll over and over.
- 1908: Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
- The two animals tumbled over each other in their eagerness to get inside, and heard the door shut behind them with great joy and relief.
- 1908: Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
- (informal) To have sexual intercourse.
- (transitive) To smooth and polish a rough surface on relatively small parts.
- To muss, to make disorderly; to tousle or rumple.
- to tumble a bed
Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
to fall end over end
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