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Adjective tumbling has 2 senses
- billowing, rolling, tumbling - moving in surges and billows and rolls; "billowing smoke from burning houses"; "the rolling fog"; "the rolling sea"; "the tumbling water of the rapids"
Antonyms: nonmoving, unmoving (indirect, via moving)
- tumbling - pitching headlong with a rolling or twisting movement; "a violent tumbling fall"
Antonyms: standing, upright (indirect, via falling)
Noun tumbling has 1 sense
- acrobatics, tumbling - the gymnastic moves of an acrobat
--1 is a kind of gymnastics, gymanstic exercise
--1 has parts: acrobatic stunt, acrobatic feat
Verb tumble has 11 senses
- tumble, topple - fall down, as if collapsing; "The tower of the World Trade Center tumbled after the plane hit it"
--1 is one way to descend, fall, go down, come down
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- topple, tumble, tip - cause to topple or tumble by pushing
--2 is one way to push, force
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- tumble - roll over and over, back and forth
--3 is one way to roll over
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- whirl, tumble, whirl around - fly around; "The clothes tumbled in the dryer"; "rising smoke whirled in the air"
--4 is one way to move
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- crumble, crumple, tumble, break down, collapse - fall apart; "the building crimbled after the explosion"; "Negociations broke down"
--5 is one way to change integrity
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- tumble - throw together in a confused mass; "They tumbled the teams with no apparent pattern"
--6 is one way to scramble, jumble, throw together
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- catch on, get wise, get onto, tumble, latch on, cotton on, twig, get it - understand, usually after some initial difficulty; "She didn't know what her classmates were plotting but finally caught on"
--7 is one way to get the picture, comprehend, savvy, dig, grasp, compass, apprehend
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- tumble - fall suddenly and sharply; "Prices tumbled after the devaluation of the currency"
--8 is one way to drop
Sample sentence:
The stock market is going to tumble
- tumble - 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"
--9 is one way to toss
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- tumble - suffer a sudden downfall, overthrow, or defeat
--10 is one way to worsen, decline
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- tumble - do gymnastics, roll and turn skillfully
--11 is one way to exercise, work out
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