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Meaning of tumble in English

tumble
verb [ I ]
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/ˈtʌm.bəl/ us
/ˈtʌm.bəl/
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to fall quickly and without control:
I lost my footing and tumbled down the stairs.
At any moment the whole building could tumble down.
He lost his balance and tumbled over.
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
to go down onto the ground suddenly
  • fallShe slipped and fell.
  • dropSeveral apples dropped from the tree.
  • collapseSeveral buildings collapsed in the earthquake.
  • crumpleHe fainted and crumpled into a heap on the floor.
  • tumbleA huge rock tumbled down the mountain.
  • plungeFour of the mountaineers plunged to their deaths when their ropes broke.
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to fall a lot in value in a short time:
Share prices tumbled yesterday.
to move in an uncontrolled way, as if falling or likely to fall:
An excited group of children tumbled out of school/the bus.
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Falling and dropping
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Phrasal verb

tumble to something
tumble
noun [ C ]
uk
/ˈtʌm.bəl/ us
/ˈtʌm.bəl/
a sudden fall:
She took a nasty tumble on her way to work and grazed her arm.
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Falling and dropping
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Idiom

take a tumble
(Definition of tumble from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

tumble | American Dictionary

tumble
verb [ I ]
us
/ˈtʌm·bəl/
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to fall or roll quickly and without control:
Rocks tumbled down the hill.
She lost her balance and tumbled into the mud.
fig. Stock prices tumbled (= quickly lost a lot of value).

tumble

noun [ C ] us
/ˈtʌm·bəl/
I took a tumble and hurt my knee.
(Definition of tumble from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

tumble | Business English

tumble
verb [ I ]
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/ˈtʌmbl/ us
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to go down in amount or value very quickly and suddenly:
tumble to sth (from sth) Its stock has tumbled to $1.62 a share from a high of $14 last week.
tumble 20%/20 points/20 cents December crude oil tumbled 51 cents to $24.34 a barrel.
Stock and bond prices tumbled sharply.
tumble
noun [ C ]
uk
/ˈtʌmbl/ us
a sudden and large reduction in value or amount:
Financial stocks are expected to take a tumble as interest rates rise.
(Definition of tumble from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of tumble

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Again, agricultural ' depression ' is something we understand as a period of developmental stasis and social crisis when fields of grain tumbled down to grass.
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Long-range motional restrictions in a multidomain zinc-finger protein from anisotropic tumbling.
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When the stock market tumbled beginning in 2000, what had been a large aggregate asset became a net liability that persisted through 2005.
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I have been unable to mention, much less do justice to, all the many themes and arguments that come tumbling off the pages of this book.
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They learn to sit independently and to use their stable torso as a base of support for reaching in many areas of the space without tumbling over.
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However, the application of positive stimuli (addition of an attractant or removal of a repellent) suppresses the tumbling frequency and the lengths of individual straight trajectories become longer.
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Éirann; in 1988 he threw in the bureaucratic towel, and the pieces have been tumbling out of him ever since, chief among them seven of his now nine symphonies.
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If you take away a cornerstone, much more may come tumbling down.
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Most of these ancient philosophies which belong to a period of time so remote, when we were not at war, have tumbled down.
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The prices paid by industry for gas and electricity have tumbled in recent years.
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The world slump has sent inflation rates tumbling.
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At the bottom of the yard is a wall, which has half tumbled down.
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I do not subscribe to the view that world real prices are likely to come tumbling down.
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We have an example here of political tumbling.
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Their neighbours were tumbling over one another to give them a friendly welcome, and to help them.
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Translations of tumble

in Chinese (Traditional)
跌倒, 滾下，墜落, 倒塌…
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跌倒, 滚下，坠落, 倒塌…
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caerse, caer…
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cair rolando, cair…
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（急に）落ちる, 転がり落ちる, 倒（たお）れる…
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tepe taklak yuvarlanmak, paldır küldür düşmek, (ücret…
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giảm, làm giảm, sự giảm…
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spadać, staczać się, runąć…
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ramla, trilla, tumla…
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stürzen, sich tummeln, der Sturz…
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