tumble
跌倒,翻滚,翻跟头,跌倒的
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tum·bled, tum·bling.
- : to fall helplessly down, end over end, as by losing one's footing, support, or equilibrium; plunge headlong: to tumble down the stairs.
- : to roll end over end, as in falling: The stones tumbled down the hill.
- : to fall or decline rapidly; drop: Prices on the stock market tumbled today.
- : to perform gymnastic feats of skill and agility, as leaps or somersaults.
- : to fall suddenly from a position of power or authority; suffer overthrow: As one dictator tumbles, another is rising to take his place.
- : to fall in ruins, as from age or decay; collapse; topple: The walls of the old mansion tumbled down upon the intruders.
- : to roll about by turning one way and another; pitch about; toss.
- : to stumble or fall: to tumble over a sled.
- : to go, come, get, etc., in a hasty and confused way: The people tumbled out of the theater. He tumbled hurriedly into his clothes.
- : Informal. to understand or become aware of some fact or circumstance: He finally tumbled to what they were doing.
- : Rocketry. to rotate without control end over end.
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Examples
The violence has once again left victims’ families with a tumble of emotions — grief, anger, confusion.
As the US economy continues to open up, the April jobs report from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics shows the boom in delivery jobs has taken a tumble.
The best ski helmets overall offer comfort, protection from the elements, and safeguarding from the unique types of impacts one might encounter when taking a tumble in the snow.
I’ve blasted through pow shots and have taken some big tumbles.
It wasn’t just the big players — customer service company Zendesk and security firm Okta also dropped Parler as a customer, furthering its tumble off the Web.
At any moment, the slightest loss in concentration could see a disastrous tumble.
His youngest son, Orange Scott, was a rough-and-tumble trickster and a terrible tease.
No friend of liberty can avoid the tumble back and forth between Burke and Paine.
Mandelbaum began her climb to the top of the crime world as a peddler on the rough-and-tumble, bustling streets of New York City.
Flecks of frosting tumble in slow motion to light on his belly, which gently swells beneath a black sweater.
He could hardly walk up the rickety front steps of the old tumble-down house, and his thirteen-year-old son had to help him.