Definition of tumble

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Tumble (v. i.) To roll down; to fall suddenly and violently; to be precipitated; as, to tumble from a scaffold..

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Blunder :: Blunder (v. i.) To move in an awkward, clumsy manner; to flounder and stumble..
Tumble :: Tumble (v. i.) To roll over, or to and fro; to throw one's self about; as, a person on pain tumbles and tosses..
Betumble :: Betumble (v. t.) To throw into disorder; to tumble.
Waddle :: Waddle (v. i.) To walk with short steps, swaying the body from one side to the other, like a duck or very fat person; to move clumsily and totteringly along; to toddle; to stumble; as, a child waddles when he begins to walk; a goose waddles..
Tousle :: Tousle (v. t.) To put into disorder; to tumble; to touse.
Fence :: Fence (n.) A projection on the bolt, which passes through the tumbler gates in locking and unlocking..
Toss :: Toss (v. t.) To keep in play; to tumble over; as, to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar..
Trip :: Trip (n.) A false step; a stumble; a misstep; a loss of footing or balance. Fig.: An error; a failure; a mistake.
Nut :: Nut (n.) The tumbler of a gunlock.
Betumbled :: Betumbled (imp. & p. p.) of Betumbl.
Tumbler :: Tumbler (n.) A movable obstruction in a lock, consisting of a lever, latch, wheel, slide, or the like, which must be adjusted to a particular position by a key or other means before the bolt can be thrown in locking or unlocking..
Wall-sided :: Wall-sided (a.) Having sides nearly perpendicular; -- said of certain vessels to distinguish them from those having flaring sides, or sides tumbling home (see under Tumble, v. i.)..
Ruinate :: Ruinate (v. i.) To fall; to tumble.
Stutter :: Stutter (v. t. & i.) To hesitate or stumble in uttering words; to speak with spasmodic repetition or pauses; to stammer.
Stumble :: Stumble (v. i.) To fall into a crime or an error; to err.
Welter :: Welter (v. i.) To roll, as the body of an animal; to tumble about, especially in anything foul or defiling; to wallow..
Tumble :: Tumble (v. t.) To disturb; to rumple; as, to tumble a bed..
Odfend :: Odfend (v. i.) To transgress the moral or divine law; to commit a crime; to stumble; to sin.
Tumble :: Tumble (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..
Stumbling-block :: Stumbler (n.) One who stumbles.
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