tumbling

Speech parts

1. tumbling - Noun

2. tumbling - Verb

Meaning

of Tumble

a. & vb. n. from Tumble, v.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

acrobatics fall flow cascade vaulting twig lurch drop falling collapse rolling spinning rushing dive tide
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Antonyms

rouse appear gain seem expand manage
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Hypernyms

gymnastics gymnastic exercise

Phrases with the word

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Examples

The fruits of victory are tumbling into our mouths too quickly. Hirohito

The law is not a series of calculating machines where answers come tumbling out when the right levers are pushed. William O. Douglas

I probably have less revision than those who have that wonderful rush of story to tell - you know, I can't wait to tell you what happened the other day. It comes tumbling out and maybe then they go back and refine. I kind of envy that way of working, but I just have never done it. Amy Hempel

She felt as if the world were tilting and she was clinging on helplessly, trying to keep from tumbling into a black abyss. Cassandra Clare

Do you know how sometimes - when you are riding your bike and you start skidding across sand, or when you miss a step and start tumbling down the stairs - you have those long, long seconds to know that you are going to be hurt, and badly? Jodi Picoult

After tumbling down the mountain, a stone lies in a valley. How did it fall away? Right now, no-one knows. Did it tear from the heights on its own? Or was it cast down by the will of another? Aeons have flowed by, yet no-one knows the reason why. Fyodor Tyutchev

Close letter words and terms

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