Tumble

Definition:

  • (v. i.) To roll over, or to and fro; to throw one's self about; as, a person on pain tumbles and tosses.
  • (v. i.) To roll down; to fall suddenly and violently; to be precipitated; as, to tumble from a scaffold.
  • (v. i.) To play tricks by various movements and contortions of the body; to perform the feats of an acrobat.
  • (v. t.) To turn over; to turn or throw about, as for examination or search; to roll or move in a rough, coarse, or unceremonious manner; to throw down or headlong; to precipitate; -- sometimes with over, about, etc.; as, to tumble books or papers.
  • (v. t.) To disturb; to rumple; as, to tumble a bed.
  • (n.) Act of tumbling, or rolling over; a fall.

Compare tumble with other words:

mumble vs. tumble

tumble vs. tumbled

fumble vs. tumble

fell vs. tumble

jumble vs. tumble

rumble vs. tumble

humble vs. tumble

bumble vs. tumble

trample vs. tumble

tug vs. tumble

balter vs. tumble

flounder vs. tumble

sink vs. tumble

cropper vs. tumble

lurch vs. tumble

topple vs. tumble

stumble vs. tumble

tumble vs. wallow

rumple vs. tumble

tousle vs. tumble

disorderly vs. tumble

muss vs. tumble

joy vs. tumble

roll vs. tumble

fall vs. tumble

tumble vs. tumbler

churn vs. tumble