intransitive verb. To perform acrobatic feats such as somersaults, rolls, or twists.

intransitive verb. undefined

intransitive verb. To fall, roll, or move end over end.

intransitive verb. To spill, roll out, or emerge in confusion or disorder.

intransitive verb. To pitch headlong; fall.

intransitive verb. To move quickly or awkwardly.

intransitive verb. To hang down.

intransitive verb. undefined

intransitive verb. To collapse.

intransitive verb. To undergo a decline in position, status, or fortune.

intransitive verb. To decrease.

intransitive verb. To come upon accidentally; happen on.

intransitive verb. To come to a sudden understanding; catch on.

intransitive verb. To cause to fall or collapse; bring down.

intransitive verb. To put, spill, or toss haphazardly.

intransitive verb. To toss or whirl in a drum, tumbler, or tumbling box.

intransitive verb. To cause to lose position, status, or fortune.

noun. An act of tumbling; a fall.

noun. A decrease, as in value.

noun. A confused or disordered collection or amount of something.

To roll about by turning one way and another; toss; pitch about; wallow: as, he tumbles and tosses from pain; the tumbling sea.

To lose footing or support and fall to the ground; come down suddenly and violently; be precipitated; as, to tumble from a scaffold.

To move or go in a rough, careless, or headlong manner.

To play mountebank tricks by various springs, balancings, posturings, and contortions of the body.

To dance.

To fall rapidly, as prices: as, fancy stocks have tumbled.

To turn in; go to bed.

Nautical to come up hastily and in a scrambling way through the hatchway on a ship's deck, as a sailor or a number of sailors together: as, the starboard watch tumbled up.

To turn over; toss about as for examination or search; revolve in one's mind: usually with over.

To disorder; rumple: as, to tumble bedclothes.

To throw by chance or with violence; fling; pitch.

To bring down; overturn or overthrow; cast to the ground; fling headlong.

To polish by revolution in a tumbling-box.

noun. A fall; a rolling or turning over; a somersault.

noun. A state of entanglement or confusion.

noun. Same as tumbling-box.

noun. Act of tumbling, or rolling over; a fall.

transitive verb. 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..

transitive verb. To disturb; to rumple.

intransitive verb. To roll over, or to and fro; to throw one's self about.

intransitive verb. To roll down; to fall suddenly and violently; to be precipitated.

intransitive verb. To play tricks by various movements and contortions of the body; to perform the feats of an acrobat.

intransitive verb. to incline inward, as the sides of a vessel, above the bends or extreme breadth; -- used esp. in the phrase tumbling home. Cf. Wall-sided.

noun. A fall

verb. To fall end over end.

verb. To perform gymnastics such as somersaults, rolls, and handsprings.

verb. To roll over and over.

verb. To have sexual intercourse.

verb. To smooth and polish a rough surface on relatively small parts.

verb. To muss, to make disorderly to tousle.

"You might see the houses _tumble, tumble, tumble_, from one end of the street to the other, with a great crash, leaving the foundations open to the view of the heavens. "["

depreciate  fall  flounce  rush  to take a tumble to one's self  

rough and tumble  take a tumble  tumble dryer  tumble to  tumbled  

apprehend  change integrity  compass  comprehend  decline  

Trumbull  bumble  crumble  fumble  grumble  

avalanche  cascade  clatter  crash  dive  

alight upon  apprehend  arsy-varsiness  ball up  bite the dust  

tumbled  tumbles  tumbling