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General dictionaries General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. tumble: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
  2. tumble: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  3. tumble: Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
  4. tumble: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  5. Tumble, tumble: Wordnik [home, info]
  6. tumble: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  7. tumble: Wiktionary [home, info]
  8. tumble: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  9. tumble: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  10. tumble: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  11. tumble: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  12. tumble (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  13. tumble: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  14. tumble: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  15. tumble: Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms [home, info]
  16. Tumble: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  17. tumble: Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs [home, info]
  18. Tumble: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  19. tumble: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  20. tumble: Rhymezone [home, info]
  21. tumble: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  22. tumble: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  23. tumble: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  24. tumble: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  25. tumble: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  26. tumble: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  27. tumble: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tumble: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tumble: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tumble: Brilliant Dream Dictionary [home, info]
  2. tumble: Idioms [home, info]

Sports dictionaries Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tumble: Sports Definitions [home, info]

Tech dictionaries Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tumble: AUTOMOTIVE TERMS [home, info]
  2. Tumble: Glossary of Fastener Terms [home, info]

Quick definitions (tumble)

noun:  an acrobatic feat of rolling or turning end over end
noun:  a sudden drop from an upright position
verb:  put clothes in a tumbling barrel, where they are whirled about in hot air, usually with the purpose of drying ("Wash in warm water and tumble dry")
verb:  fall suddenly and sharply ("Prices tumbled after the devaluation of the currency")
verb:  do gymnastics, roll and turn skillfully
verb:  throw together in a confused mass ("They tumbled the teams with no apparent pattern")
verb:  roll over and over, back and forth
verb:  fall down, as if collapsing ("The tower of the World Trade Center tumbled after the plane hit it")
verb:  suffer a sudden downfall, overthrow, or defeat
verb:  fly around ("The clothes tumbled in the dryer")
verb:  cause to topple or tumble by pushing
verb:  fall apart
verb:  understand, usually after some initial difficulty

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Phrases that include tumble:   rough and tumble, tumble dry, tumble home, tumble drying, to tumble home, more...

Words similar to tumble:   collapse, crumble, crumple, fall, skirl, spill, topple, tumbled, tumbling, twig, whirl, break down, catch on, cotton on, get it, get onto, latch on, whirl around, more...


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