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Synonyms for tumble

Grammar : Verb
Spell : tuhm-buh l
Phonetic Transcription : ˈtʌm bəl

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Définition of tumble

Origin :
  • c.1300, "to perform as an acrobat," also "to fall down," perhaps from a frequentative form of Old English tumbian "dance about," of unknown origin. Related to Middle Low German tummelen "to turn, dance," Dutch tuimelen "to tumble," Old High German tumon, German taumeln "to turn, reel." Related: Tumbled; tumbling. Tumble-down (1791) originally meant "habitually falling down" and was used first of horses; sense of "in a dilapidated condition" is recorded from 1818.
  • verb fall or make fall awkwardly
Example sentences :
  • We'll land that stake; an' p'raps the sharp division'll take a tumble.
  • Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser
  • "Of course he might have taken a tumble and sprained his ankle, or something like that," Bart said.
  • Extract from : « Frank Roscoe's Secret » by Allen Chapman
  • He does not tumble from the top to the bottom of the cellar stair.
  • Extract from : « Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood » by George MacDonald
  • Old women with children can afford to tumble downstairs, but not my kind of old women.
  • Extract from : « Four Girls and a Compact » by Annie Hamilton Donnell
  • Suddenly he shouted to Sandoz, 'Will you be kind enough not to tumble to pieces?'
  • Extract from : « His Masterpiece » by Emile Zola
  • I have got away from the wasp's nest only to tumble into the middle of the swarm!
  • Extract from : « A Nest of Spies » by Pierre Souvestre
  • From what I could see of him he was no boxer at all, but just a formidable rough and tumble fighter.
  • Extract from : « The Stark Munro Letters » by J. Stark Munro
  • And the reviewers are beginning to tumble to the fact that they're no good, too.
  • Extract from : « Kent Knowles: Quahaug » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • "I is to tumble the poppenoddles," cries the bullet-headed gentleman.
  • Extract from : « The Shadow of a Crime » by Hall Caine
  • Then all the fabric of his mother's honor would there and then tumble to the ground.
  • Extract from : « A Son of Hagar » by Sir Hall Caine

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