tumble

tumble is a 6-letter English word with 19 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To roll over, or to and fro; to throw one's self about; as, a person on pain tumbles and tosses. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 14 · 19 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To roll over, or to and fro; to throw one's self about; as, a person on pain tumbles and tosses.
2. intransitive verb. To roll down; to fall suddenly and violently; to be precipitated; as, to tumble from a scaffold.
3. intransitive verb. To play tricks by various movements and contortions of the body; to perform the feats of an acrobat.
4. 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.; as, to tumble books or papers.
5. transitive verb. To disturb; to rumple; as, to tumble a bed.
6. noun. Act of tumbling, or rolling over; a fall.
7. noun. a sudden drop from an upright position

   "he had a nasty spill on the ice"

   Synonyms: fall, spill

8. noun. an acrobatic feat of rolling or turning end over end
9. verb. do gymnastics, roll and turn skillfully
10. verb. suffer a sudden downfall, overthrow, or defeat
11. verb. put clothes in a tumbling barrel, where they are whirled about in hot air, usually with the purpose of drying

    "Wash in warm water and tumble dry"

12. verb. fall suddenly and sharply

    "Prices tumbled after the devaluation of the currency"

13. verb. understand, usually after some initial difficulty

    "She didn't know what her classmates were plotting but finally caught on"

    Synonyms: twig

14. verb. throw together in a confused mass

    "They tumbled the teams with no apparent pattern"

15. verb. roll over and over, back and forth
16. verb. fall down, as if collapsing

    "The tower of the World Trade Center tumbled after the plane hit it"

    Synonyms: topple

17. verb. fall apart

    "the building crumbled after the explosion"

    "Negotiations broke down"

    Synonyms: collapse, crumble, crumple

18. verb. fly around

    "The clothes tumbled in the dryer"

    "rising smoke whirled in the air"

    Synonyms: whirl

19. verb. cause to topple or tumble by pushing

    Synonyms: tip, topple

Synonyms

fall, spill, twig, topple, collapse, crumble, crumple, whirl, tip

Common word forms

tumbled, tumbler, tumbles, tumbling

Words from these letters

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