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tumble Verb [-bling, -bled] 1. to fall or cause to fall, esp. awkwardly or violently: chairs tumbled over 2. to roll or twist, esp. in playing: they rolled and tumbled as wild beasts 3. to decrease in value suddenly: interest rates tumbled 4. to move in a quick and uncontrolled manner: the crowd tumbled down the stairs 5. to disturb, rumple, or toss around: she was all tumbled by the fall 6. to perform leaps or somersaults Noun 1. a fall, esp. an awkward or violent one: he took a tumble down the stairs 2. a somersault [Old English tumbian dance, jump] tumbled adj Tumble confused pile or mass. See also jumble, tangle. Examples: tumble of bush and bramble, 1903; of clowns; of feathers, 1755; of rocks and trees, 1762.
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tumble Translationsvi → caerse, tropezar; to tumble to sth (inf) → réaliser qch vi (= fall) → stürzen tumble to tumble (inf) vt fus → kapieren vt → far cadere; to tumble to sth (col) → realizzare qc |
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When the waves began to tumble and toss and to grow bigger and bigger the ship rolled up and down, and tipped sidewise--first one way and then the other--and was jostled around so roughly that even the sailor-men had to hold fast to the ropes and railings to keep themselves from being swept away by the wind or pitched headlong into the sea. You think you will write your letters, but after sticking at "Dearest Auntie: I find I have five minutes to spare, and so hasten to write to you," for a quarter of an hour, without being able to think of another sentence, you tumble the paper into the desk, fling the wet pen down upon the table-cloth, and start up with the resolution of going to see the Thompsons. She used to tumble downstairs two or three times a week, then, because she never would allow any one to help her; and could not be brought to believe that she was as blind as a mole, and as rickety on her legs as a child of a year old. |
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