Word Meanings - TUMBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

violently; akin to D. tuimelen to fall, Sw. tumla, Dan. tumle, Icel. 1. To roll over, or to and fro; to throw one's self about; as, a person on pain tumbles and tosses. 2. To roll down; to fall suddenly and violently; to be precipitated; as, to

Additional info about word: TUMBLE

violently; akin to D. tuimelen to fall, Sw. tumla, Dan. tumle, Icel. 1. To roll over, or to and fro; to throw one's self about; as, a person on pain tumbles and tosses. 2. To roll down; to fall suddenly and violently; to be precipitated; as, to tumble from a scaffold. He who tumbles from a tower surely has a greater blow than he who slides from a molehill. South. 3. To play tricks by various movements and contortions of the body; to perform the feats of an acrobat. Rowe. To tumble home , to incline inward, as the sides of a vessel, above the bends or extreme breadth; -- used esp. in the phrase tumbling home. Cf. Wall-sided.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TUMBLE)

• Flounder
• Roll
• blunder
• bungle
• boggle
• wallow
• tumble

Related words: (words related to TUMBLE)

• BOGGLE
  1. To stop or hesitate as if suddenly frightened, or in doubt, or impeded by unforeseen difficulties; to take alarm; to exhibit hesitancy and indecision. We start and boggle at every unusual appearance. Glanvill. Boggling at nothing which serveth
• TUMBLERFUL
  As much as a tumbler will hold; enough to fill a tumbler.
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
• TUMBLE-DOWN
  Ready to fall; dilapidated; ruinous; as, a tumble-down house.
• BUNGLER
  A clumsy, awkward workman; one who bungles. If to be a dunce or a bungler in any profession be shameful, how much more ignominious and infamous to a scholar to be such! Barrow.
• BLUNDERHEAD
  A stupid, blundering fellow.
• BOGGLER
  One who boggles.
• WALLOW
  1. To roll one's self about, as in mire; to tumble and roll about; to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder; as, swine wallow in the mire. I may wallow in the lily beds. Shak. 2. To live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self
• BLUNDERER
  One who is apt to blunder.
• FLOUNDER
  A flatfish of the family Pleuronectidæ, of many species. Note: The common English flounder is Pleuronectes flesus. There are several common American species used as food; as the smooth flounder ; the rough or winter flounder ; the summer flounder,
• TUMBLEWEED
  Any plant which habitually breaks away from its roots in the autumn, and is driven by the wind, as a light, rolling mass, over the fields and prairies; as witch grass, wild indigo, Amarantus albus, etc.
• BLUNDERING
  Characterized by blunders.
• BLUNDERINGLY
  In a blundering manner.
• TUMBLE
  violently; akin to D. tuimelen to fall, Sw. tumla, Dan. tumle, Icel. 1. To roll over, or to and fro; to throw one's self about; as, a person on pain tumbles and tosses. 2. To roll down; to fall suddenly and violently; to be precipitated; as, to
• BLUNDERBUSS
  to G. büchse box, gun, E. box; or corrupted fr. D. donderbus 1. A short gun or firearm, with a large bore, capable of holding a number of balls, and intended to do execution without exact aim. 2. A stupid, blundering fellow.
• TUMBLER
  A piece attached to, or forming part of, the hammer of a gunlock, upon which the mainspring acts and in which are the notches for sear point to enter. 4. A drinking glass, without a foot or stem; -- so called because originally it had a pointed
• BLUNDER
  1. To make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in writing or preparing a medical prescription. Swift. 2. To move in an awkward, clumsy manner; to flounder and stumble. I was never distinguished for address, and have often even blundered in
• TUMBLEBUG
  See TUMBLEDUNG
• BUNGLE
  To act or work in a clumsy, awkward manner.
• TUMBLEDUNG
  Any one of numerous species of scaraboid beetles belonging to Scarabæus, Copris, Phanæus, and allied genera. The female lays her eggs in a globular mass of dung which she rolls by means of her hind legs to a burrow excavated in the earth in which
• SWALLOWFISH
  The European sapphirine gurnard . It has large pectoral fins.
• SWALLOW
  Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidæ, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They have long, pointed wings, and are noted for the swiftness and gracefulness of their flight. Note:
• SEA SWALLOW
  See CHOUGH (more info) The common tern. The storm petrel. The gannet.
• ENWALLOW
  To plunge into, or roll in, flith; to wallow. So now all three one senseless lump remain, Enwallowed in his own black bloody gore. Spenser.
• BETUMBLE
  To throw into disorder; to tumble. From her betumbled couch she starteth. Shak.
• STUMBLER
  One who stumbles.
• BANK SWALLOW
  See N