All tumble synonyms
tumΒ·ble
T t verb tumble
- barraging β Military. a heavy barrier of artillery fire to protect one's own advancing or retreating troops or to stop the advance of enemy troops.
- lapidate β to pelt with stones.
- come to pass β to take place
- flow β to move along in a stream: The river flowed slowly to the sea.
- muck up β a bungled or disordered situation; foul-up.
- detrain β to leave or cause to leave a railway train, as passengers, etc
- bring down β When people or events bring down a government or ruler, they cause the government or ruler to lose power.
- disorder β lack of order or regular arrangement; confusion: Your room is in utter disorder.
- lay waste β to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words.
- crash β A crash is an accident in which a moving vehicle hits something and is damaged or destroyed.
- ko'd β a knockout in boxing.
- kos β a unit of land distance of various lengths from 1 to 3 miles (1.6 to 4.8 km).
- overbalance β to outweigh: The opportunity overbalances the disadvantages of leaving town.
- flop β to fall or plump down suddenly, especially with noise; drop or turn with a sudden bump or thud (sometimes followed by down): The puppy flopped down on the couch.
- make up to β to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- bandying β to pass from one to another or back and forth; give and take; trade; exchange: to bandy blows; to bandy words.
- meet β greatest lower bound
- approach β When you approach something, you get closer to it.
- keel β a red ocher stain used for marking sheep, lumber, etc.; ruddle.
- lapidated β to pelt with stones.
- let go β to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- hacking β a rack for drying food, as fish.
- detraining β to alight from a railway train; arrive by train.
- fall in with β to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
- knock over β to strike a sounding blow with the fist, knuckles, or anything hard, especially on a door, window, or the like, as in seeking admittance, calling attention, or giving a signal: to knock on the door before entering.
- get the picture β understand
- discreate β to reduce to nothing; annihilate.
- distempered β Art. a technique of decorative painting in which glue or gum is used as a binder or medium to achieve a mat surface and rapid drying. (formerly) the tempera technique.
- disarrayed β Simple past tense and past participle of disarray.
- let fly β to move through the air using wings.
- crashland β Alternative form of crash-land.
- discreated β to reduce to nothing; annihilate.
- fold up β a part that is folded; pleat; layer: folds of cloth.
- feel out β to perceive or examine by touch.
- mucking β moist farmyard dung, decaying vegetable matter, etc.; manure.
- cast about β to make a mental or visual search
- fell β simple past tense of fall.
- chance on β to come upon by accident
- disorient β to cause to lose one's way: The strange streets disoriented him.
- be-held β simple past tense and past participle of behold.
- lapse β an accidental or temporary decline or deviation from an expected or accepted condition or state; a temporary falling or slipping from a previous standard: a lapse of justice.
- apperceive β to be aware of perceiving
- lose it β to come to be without (something in one's possession or care), through accident, theft, etc., so that there is little or no prospect of recovery: I'm sure I've merely misplaced my hat, not lost it.
noun tumble
- cave-in β a collapse, as of anything hollow: the worst cave-in in the history of mining.
- falloff β a decline in quantity, vigor, etc.
- clutter β Clutter is a lot of things in an untidy state, especially things that are not useful or necessary.
- cavein β a hollow in the earth, especially one opening more or less horizontally into a hill, mountain, etc.
- ataxia β lack of muscular coordination
- fall β to come or drop down suddenly to a lower position, especially to leave a standing or erect position suddenly, whether voluntarily or not: to fall on one's knees.
- welter β to roll, toss, or heave, as waves or the sea.