Tumble

Definition: Tumble

Tumble

Noun

1. An acrobatic feat of rolling or turning end over end.

2. A sudden drop from an upright position; "he had a nasty spill on the ice".

Verb

1. Fall down, as if collapsing.

2. Cause to topple or tumble by pushing.

3. Roll over and over, back and forth.

4. Fly around, as of paper on the sidewalk, or clothes in a dryer, or rising smoke in the wind.

5. Fall apart; also used metaphorically: "Negociations broke down".

6. Throw together in a confused mass; "They tumbled the teams with no apparent pattern".

7. Understand, usually after some initial difficulty.

8. Fall suddenly and sharply; "Prices tumbled after the devaluation of the currency".

9. Dry clothes by putting them in tumbling barrel, where they are whirled about in hot air; "Wash in warm water and tumble dry".

10. : suffer a sudden downfall, overthrow, or defeat.

11. : do gymnastics, roll and turn skillfully.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "tumble" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Note: Tumble \Tum"ble\, intransitive verb [imperfect & past participle. Tumbled; Tumbling.]. (Websters 1913)

Aerospace

Dream Interpretation

Industry

Mining

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Synonyms: Tumble

Agitation

Verb: be agitated; shake; tremble, tremble like an aspen leaf; quiver, quaver, quake, shiver, twitter, twire, writhe, toss, shuffle, tumble, stagger, bob, reel, sway, wag, waggle; wriggle, wriggle like an eel; dance, stumble, shamble, flounder, totter, flounce, flop, curvet, prance, cavort; squirm.

Agitate, shake, convulse, toss, tumble, bandy, wield, brandish, flap, flourish, whisk, jerk, hitch, jolt; jog, joggle, jostle, buffet, hustle, disturb, stir, shake up, churn, jounce, wallop, whip, vellicate.

Arrangement

Verb: derange; disarrange, misarrange; displace, misplace; mislay, discompose, disorder; deorganize, discombobulate, disorganize; embroil, unsettle, disturb, confuse, trouble, perturb, jumble, tumble; shuffle, randomize; huddle, muddle, toss, hustle, fumble, riot; bring into disorder, put into disorder, throw into disorder; muss; break the ranks, disconcert, convulse; break in upon.

Descent

Tumble, trip, stumble, titubate, lurch, pitch, swag, topple, topple over, tumble over, topple down, tumble down; tilt, sprawl, plump down, come down a cropper.

Noun: descent, descension, declension, declination; fall; falling; Verb:: slump; drop, plunge, plummet, cadence; subsidence, collapse, lapse; downfall, tumble, slip, tilt, trip, lurch; cropper, culbute; titubation, stumble; fate of Icarus.

Destruction

Verb: be destroyed; perish; fall to the ground; tumble, topple; go to pieces, fall to pieces; break up; crumble to dust; go to the dogs, go to the wall, go to smash, go to shivers, go to wreck, go to pot, go to wrack and ruin; go by the board, go all to smash; be all over, be all up, be all with; totter to its fall.

Disorder

Turmoil; ferment; (agitation); to-do, trouble, pudder, pother, row, rumble, disturbance, hubbub, convulsion, tumult, uproar, revolution, riot, rumpus, stour, scramble, brawl, fracas, rhubarb, fight, free-for-all, row, ruction, rumpus, embroilment, melee, spill and pelt, rough and tumble; whirlwind; bear garden, Babel, Saturnalia, donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair, confusion worse confounded, most admired disorder, concordia discors; Bedlam, all hell broke loose; bull in a china shop; all the fat in the fire, diable a' quatre, Devil to pay; pretty kettle of fish; pretty piece of work, pretty piece of business.

Failure

Limp, halt, hobble, titubate; fall, tumble; lose one's balance; fall to the ground, fall between two stools; flounder, falter, stick in the mud, run aground, split upon a rock; beat one's head against a stone wall, run one's head against a stone wall, knock one's head against a stone wall, dash one's head against a stone wall; break one's back; break down, sink, drown, founder, have the ground cut from under one; get into trouble, get into a mess, get into a scrape; come to grief; (adversity); go to the wall, go to the dogs, go to pot; lick the dust, bite the dust; be defeated; have the worst of it, lose the day, come off second best, lose; fall a prey to; succumb; (submit); not have a leg to stand on.

Crosswords: Tumble

Somewhere along the line, your values took a tumble. What did it? (Vengeance Unlimited; writing credit: Andrew Davies; William Makepeace Thackeray)

Hand wash, no bleach, tumble dry, medium heat, cool iron. (Monk; writing credit: Andy Breckman; David Breckman)

I'll tumble 4 you (I'll Tumble 4 Ya; performing artist: Culture Club)

Watch the greenbacks tumble (Wall Street Shuffle; performing artist: 10CC)

Should tumble and fall ("Stand By Me"; performing artist: Ben E. King)

She'll take a tumble on you, roll you like you were dice ("Bette Davis Eyes"; performing artist: Kim Carnes)

Tumble inside my head (Angelia; performing artist: Richard Marx)

Tumble Weed Greed (1969)

Rough and Tumble (1945)

Tumble Down Town (1933)

A Mighty Tumble (1901)

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References

• The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Tumble Dry Fabric Conditioner Sheets (reference)

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Books

• Fluffn' Tumble in the Yard (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Ancient Secrets of the Bible: Walls of Jericho - Did They Tumble Down? (reference)

• Walls of Jericho:Did They Tumble Down (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Rough 'n' Tumble [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] (reference)

• Tumble of the Dice (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Tumble Pop (reference)

• Rough & Tumble Pack (reference)

• Kirby Tilt N' Tumble (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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N. Tom o' logical studies. The great tumble bug of Missouri, bent-on rollin his ball. Credit: Library of Congress.

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After the fourth or fifth tumble he reached the turn, and then she waved her handkerchief to him, and waited till he was out of sight.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "tumble": all in a tumble ♦ give smb. a tumble ♦ rough and tumble ♦ To tumble home ♦ tumble about ♦ tumble down ♦ tumble down over ♦ tumble drier ♦ tumble dry ♦ tumble dryer ♦ tumble grass ♦ tumble head over heels ♦ tumble in ♦ tumble in prices ♦ tumble into ♦ tumble into smb.'s clothes ♦ tumble out ♦ tumble over ♦ tumble to ♦ tumble to smth.. Additional references.

Beginning with "tumble": tumble-cut, tumble-down, tumble-drier, tumble-dryer, tumble-dryers, tumble-home, tumble-weed.

Ending with "tumble": rough-and-tumble, rumble-tumble.

Albanian

rrëzohem (cant, descend, fall, pitch, sink, slump), rrëmujë (alarm, bustle, clutter, disarray, disorder, disturbance, dust, farrago, hash, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, huddle, hugger mugger, jumble, litter, mess, mix up, moil, muss, pandemonium, pell mell, pie, pother, roistering, snafu, tangle, topsy turvy, topsy-turvydom, upheaval, upset, welter), rënie (abatement, bathos, collapse, come down, decadence, decadency, decay, decline, decrepitude, degeneracy, degradation, degression, depression, descent, dilapidation, downfall, drop, drop off, fall, falling, flop, incidence, lapse, letdown, precipitation, prolapse, recession, regress, spill, taper, wane), gremisje (downfall, fall), gremisem (fall down), gremis (capsize, overturn, turn head over heels), bie (abate, attach, attack, bang out, bite, blow over, break down, bring, burn down, chime, come a cropper, come down, crash, crash down, crumple, cut, decline, descend, devolve, drop, fall, fall off, fall on, finger, flake off, flop, give, go, go down, hoot, pitch, play, plunge, plunk, recede, sink, strike, subside, throw down), çrregulloj (confuse, derange, disarrange, disarray, dislocate, disorder, disorganize, disturb, downgrade, mess, rumple, upset). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تشقلب (somersault), ‏رمى بسرعة, ‏أدار (administer, boss, carry on, cast, direct, dispense, govern, manage, mobilize, operate, order, preside, procure, rotate, run, slew, slue, spin, spun, steward, superintend, twiddle, twirl, wind, work), ‏إندفع (bicker, break out, dash, fling, flush, lunge, make, precipitate, regurgitate, rip, rush, scramble, stampede, stream, surge, swarm, urge, zip), ‏إنخفض (die down, drop, fade, go down, recede, sag, stoop), ‏إنهار (break down, cave, collapse, come down, crack, crash, crock, crumple, drop, fall, fall in, founder, go under, perish, plummet, ruin, run down, sink, slough, slump, tumble down), ‏صادف (chance, come across, encounter, fall in with, happen, happen on, light upon, meet, meet by chance, run across, stumble, stumble on), ‏سقط (bring down, cave, come off, dip, dive, down, drop, drop out, failed, fall, go by the board, settle, skip, spill, sprawl, squirt, topple, trip), ‏سقوط (chute, descent, downfall, drop, falling, fallout, incidence, jolt, overthrow, overturn, plunge, spilling), ‏شقلبة, ‏تدهور (break down, breakdown, crumble, decadence, decay, deteriorate, deterioration, drop, go to pot, go to the bad, impairment, retrogradation, run to seed, sour, suffer), ‏فسد نظام شىء, ‏تعثر (flounder, halt, stumble, trip), ‏تقلب (alteration, change, fickleness, float, fluctuate, fluctuation, flux, inconsistency, inconstancy, levity, oscillate, oscillation, swing, toss, turn, variation, versatility, vicissitude, welter), ‏وقع (be located, befall, come, come off, drop, dwell, fall, ground smb., happen, land, locate, place, position, rhythm, run, set one's hand to, sign, sign up, site, strike, subscribe, supervene, take place, underwrite), ‏وقع بعنف, ‏قفر (desert, waste, wasteland, wild, wild land, wilderness), ‏لها (dally, disport, have a good time, have fun, play about, toy, trifle), ‏هرول بإضطراب, ‏كوم (accumulate, amass, bank, heap, heap up, hill up, jam, lumber, pile, pile up, rake, scrape, stack, stick, tamp), ‏تداعى (fall in with, falter). (various references)

Bulgarian 

катурвам се (keel over, upset), падане (drop, fall, falling, flow, incidence, mucker, prolapsus, spill, thump, trip), премятане презглава, прекатурвам (blow over, overbalance, overset, overthrow, overturn, push over, tumble down, upset), прекатурване (capsize, roll over, turnover, upset), бъркотия (bungle, clutter, confusion, disarrangement, disturbance, dust, farrago, fuss, hash, havoc, huddle, hugger mugger, hurry-scurry, imbroglio, involution, involvement, jumble, jungle, maze, melee, mess, mess up, mishmash, mix, mix up, muddle, muss, patchwork, pell mell, razzle, razzle-dazzle, rout, salmagundi, skein, snafu, tangle, uproar, upset, welter), обърквам (abash, addle, baffle, bedevil, befuddle, bewilder, complicate, confound, confuse, discomfit, disconcert, disjoint, dislocate, distract, embarrass, embroil, flatten, flummox, fluster, foil, fuddle, gravel, jumble, maze, mess about, mess around, mess up, muddle, muff, muss, nonplus, obfuscate, overwhelm, perplex, pose, put off, put out, puzzle, sew up, snarl, stonker, throw out, vex, wilder), падам (attach, come down, crash, descend, drop, drop off, fall, fall off, fall out, go down, hang, land, lapse, light, prang, ring down, roll off, set, settle, settle down, slip down, topple, tumble down), катурвам (keel over, reverse, subvert, tip, upset), суша в центрофуга, катурване (subversion), куп (accumulation, agglomeration, amassment, bunch, bundle, clamp, cluster, congeries, crop, crowd, cumulation, cumulus, heap, hoard, huddle, knot, lashings, lump, mass, mint, mound, mountain, pack, parcel, pile, raft, ruck, scad, shoal, sight, slathers, stack), купчина (batch, clamp, cluster, heap, huddle, mass, pile, ruck, stack), разбърквам (addle, agitate, clutter, derange, disarrange, disorder, jumble, litter, mess up, mix, mix up, muddle, puddle, rumple, scramble, tousle, trouble, unbalance, unfix, unsettle), роша, спадам рязко (plummet), объркване (abashment, addlement, bewilderment, commotion, confusion, discomfiture, dislocation, embarrassment, embroilment, entanglement, fuddle, involution, maze, stir, tizzy). (various references)

Chinese 

跟斗, 滾落 , 滾動 (roll), 下跌 (fall). (various references)

Czech

zmatek (anarchy, bewilderment, chaos, circus, clutter, confusion, disarray, disorder, disturbance, embroilment, fluster, hash, hodge-podge, jumble, maze, mess up, mix up, moil, muddle, Mull, nonplus, non-plus, pandemonium, perplexity, perturbation, puzzlement, shambles, stew, tangle, tempest, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, turnup, upset, welter), svalit se (collapse, drop to the ground, topple), sundat (detach, doff, get down, reach, take down, tumble down, uncover), skácet se (topple), shodit (drop, fling off, precipitate, shed, throw, throw down, tumble down), povalit (bring down), porazit (bear down, beat, best, butcher, chop down, conquer, cut down, defeat, fell, hack down, hew, hew down, kill, knock down, overthrow, overturn, run down, smite, stick, strike down, stump, vanquish), přemet (handspring, loop, somersault), překotit (fall over, keel over, tip, topple, upset), pád (case, collapse, crash, downfall, drop, fall, plump, plunge, ruin, spill), nepořádek (disarrangement, disarray, disorder, mess, messiness, untidiness), kotrmelec, klopýtnout (founder, stumble, trip). (various references)

Danish

tromle (barrel *, bobbin, coiling drum *, cylinder, drum, hoisting reel, lifter, reel, ring wheel, rope barrel *, rope drum *, section wheel, segment, spool, to barrel polish, tumbler, tumbling barrel, winding-reel). (various references)

Dutch

trommelpolijsken (to barrel polish), trommelakken (to barrel polish). (various references)

Esperanto

defali (fall, fall off, tumble down). (various references)

Farsi 

پریدن (Bounce, Hip, Jump, Nip, Spout, Spring, Stow, Vault), معلق خوردن , ناگهان افتادن , چرخش (Evolution, Gyration, Revolution, Roll, Swirl, Troll, Turquoise, Twirl, Wheel, Whirl, Wrench, Wrest), لغزیدن (Skid, Slide, Slip, Stumble), غلت خوردن (Roll), غلت (Slither), جست وخیزکردن (Cavort, Jig, Lope, Skip), افتادن (Drop, Fall, Keel, Lie, Prostrate, Stump), اشفتگی (Chaos, Consternation, Disorder, Nonplus, Rummage, Turmoil, Unrest), رقصیدن (Bale, Caper, Dance, Hoof, Hop, Lope), بهم ریختگی . (various references)

Finnish

rumpukiillottaa (to barrel polish). (various references)

French

tomber sur, tomber en ruine, tomber, trébucher, mettre en désordre, batifoler, chute, chuter (tug, tumble down), culbute (tumbling), culbuter, dégringoler (tumble down), faire tourner (turn), basculer, gambader, polir au tonneau, renverser (turn, turn about, turn over), se branler, se détériorer, se jeter, faire une culbute. (various references)

German

fallen (be dropped, be fired, be killed, be made, be mentioned, be passed, be pronounced, be uttered, come down, decrease, descend, die, drop, fall, fall off, flop, go down, halyards, hang, impinge, lower, pitch, pitfalls, slip, slump, to fall (fell, topple, traps). (various references)

Greek 

κατρακύλισμα, κατρακύλημα, κατακυλιώ, κατακυλιόμαι, καταπίπτω (collapse, sink, slump, subside, topple), σύγχυση (bewilderment, clutter, confusion, disarray, discomfiture, discomposure, disorientation, embroilment, fogginess, hugger mugger, mix up, muss, perplexity, welter), στίλβωση σε τύμπανο (to barrel polish), πέσιμο (fall), ανατρέπω (buck, capsize, frustrate, invert, keel over, nullify, overbalance, overrule, overthrow, overturn, subvert, tip over, tip over 2, topple, upset, upturn), ανατρέπομαι (capsize, keel over, overturn). (various references)

Hebrew 

מעי�"�" (fall, false step, slip, slipping, stumble, trip), מ�"ומ�" (ado, bedlam, din, disturbance, fracas, mess, muss, pandemonium, riot, rout, ruction, stir, trouble, turmoil), למעו�" (slip, stumble, totter, trip, trip up), ליפול פתאם (plump), ל�"ת�"פך (be inverted, roll oneself, turn, turn over, upset), ערבובי�" (clutter, confusion, disorder, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hodgpodge, hotchpotch, jumble, medley, mess, mingle-mangle, mishmash, muddle, muss, pastiche, welter), �"פוך (contrary, converse, inverse, inversion, inverted, obverse, overturned, reverse, turned upside down, turning over, upside down), �'ל�'ול (kneading, revolving, rolling, turning round), � פיל�" (collapse, defeat, degradation, downfall, fall, falling, pitch, slip, spilling). (various references)

Hungarian

felfordít (to bowl over, to cant, to dislocate, to invert, to overturn, to reverse, to roll over, to turn over, upset), esés (alignment, crump, descent, downfall, droop, drop, ebb, fall, falling, flop, gradient, setback, spill), elesik bukás, összekuszál (dishevel, embrangle, jumble, to disarray, to ensnarl, to entangle, to mess, to muss, to ravel, to ruffle, to snarl). (various references)

Indonesian

lintang-pukang (topsyturvy), jatuh terguling-guling. (various references)

Italian

tombola (bingo, tombola), scivolone (fall), ruzzolone, ruzzolare (tumble down, welter), rovesciare (capsize, down, Evert, knock over, overset, overthrow, overturn, pour, reverse, shower, slop, spill, spill out, tip, topple, turn, turn inside out, turn over, upset), precipitarsi (charge, dash, hasten, hurtle, plunge, rush, rush over, rush up, storm), gettarsi (throw), cascare (fall, pitch), capitombolo, capitombolare, caduta (crash, downfall, drop, fall, falling, plunge, slide, slump, spill, toss), cadere (crumble, devolve, drop, fall, land, pitch, plump, plunge, sink, sink down, slump, topple), agitarsi (agitate, bestir oneself, bustle, fidget, flounder, flutter, fuss, rain, rainfall, ruffle, shake, stir, tingle, toss, twitch, wag). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

転がる (to roll, to tumble). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

くずれおちる (to crumble down, to to fall in, to tumble down), �"ろがり�"む (to come to live with, to fall in one's way, to roll in, to tumble into, to visit), �"ろがる (to roll, to tumble), �"ろ�'おちる (to fall off, to tumble down), �"ろ�'�"む (to roll or tumble into), �"ろ�'る (to roll about, to roll over, to tumble). (various references)

Korean 

� �락. (various references)

Manx

ymmyltey (roll over, wallow), ymmylt (roll over, wallow), tuittym (abate, befall, cadence, cadence of voice, calming, collapse, come off, crumple, decline, depreciate; abatement, depreciation, descend, die down, droop, drop fall, fall off, fall out, fall over, falling, falter, flounder, floundering, founder, go down, incidence, keel over, lapse, overbalance, sag, slump, subside, subsidence, tip over, topple, waver, waver of courage, wavering), surlley (sprawl, sprawling), surlaghey (toss on sea), lhieggey (bowl over, cataract, chop down, demolish, dismount, downfall, drop, fall, fall down, fell, fire, hew, overbalance, overflow, pick off, pull down, run over, spill, strike, striking, throw, topple, weigh down), lhieggal (beat down, beat down price, bowl over, cast down, chop down, dismount, fall, fell, fetch down, get down, knock over, lay low, level, lower, pull down, pull over, raze, run down, topple). (various references)

Pig Latin

umbletay

Portuguese

tombar (droop, fall over, flag, keel, lapse, overset, sink, tip, topple), trambolhão (fall, mucker, turnover), levar aos tombos, cambalhota (caper, capriole, dido, flip-flap, flywheel, frisk, gambade, gambol, somersault, wheel), confusão (baffle, bedlam, bother, bungle, clutter, confusion, daze, disarray, discomfiture, discomposure, disturbance, donnybrook, embroilment, entanglement, fog, foul-up, fuddle, intricacy, involution, involvement, jumble, kettle of fish, labyrinth, macaroni, maze, medley, mess, mind-breaker, mingle-mangle, mishmash, misrule, mix, mix-up, moil, muddle, mull, muss, olio, pandemonium, pell-mell, perplexity, perturbation, pother, puddle, puzzle, ravel, rough-and-tumble, rout, shuffle, skein, to-do, turbidity, turmoil), correr (accrue, bolt, career, course, fleet, fling, flow, flux, gallop, go, hotfoot, hurry, lob, overrun, race, run, scoot, shoot, speed, travel), dar um trambolhão, derrubar (down, fell, floor, grass, hew, hew down, knock, knock down, lay, overset, overthrow, overturn, prostrate, pull down, put down, shoot down, subvert, throw, unbuild, upset), cair violentamente, desordem (affray, clutter, confusion, disarrangement, disarray, discomposure, donnybrook, fray, huddle, hugger-mugger, hurry-scurry, jumble, litter, mess, misrule, muddle, mush, muss, pandemonium, pell-mell, perturbation, riot, rough-and-tumble, rout, ruction, ruffle, rumpus, scuffle, stir, topsy-turvy, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, untidiness, uproar, upset), limpar peças em torno rotativo (to barrel polish), polir peças em torno rotativo (to barrel polish), queda (cloud-burst, come-down, debacle, decay, descent, downfall, fall, fallback, falling, letdown, mucker, overthrow, prolapse, purler, spill, tumbling, upset), sair (back off, depart, draw out, exit, flit, get off, get out, go out, issue, leave, move away, move out, pull out, take off, to come out, to get out, to go out), salto da acrobata, desarranjo (breakdown, colorwash, colourwash, derangement, disarrangement, disorder, perturbation). (various references)

Romanian

tumbã (caper, cart wheel, somersault), mototoli (Crinkle, crumple, crush, Rive, ruffle, rumple), azvârli (cast, catapult, chuck, discharge, drop, fling, hurl, jet, kick, launch, precipitate, project, send, shoot, slam, sling, throw, toss), cãdea brusc (plump), cãdere bruscã, cãzãturã (fall, rotter, wreck), ciufuli pãrul, confuzie (bewilderment, blankness, clutter, confusion, disorder, distraction, embroilment, fuss, haziness, huddle, hugger mugger, jumble, mix up, muddle, obfuscation, shuffle, storm), arunca (bowl, cast, cast aside, cast away, cast off, chuck, cob, dart, dash, deliver, discard, drop, fling, huddle on, hurl, jet, jettison, launch, peg, pelt at, pitch, pluck, plump, plunge into, precipitate, project, put, reject, rush, send, shoot, slam, sling, throw, throw away, throw off, throw out, toss), dezordine (clutter, confusion, disarrangement, disarray, disorder, disturbance, disturbances, glory-hole, havoc, hubbub, huddle, hugger mugger, litter, mess, misrule, motley, riot, riots, rough, rout, topsy turvy, upset, welter), rãsturna (capsize, coup, invert, lay low, overthrow, overturn, reverse, rummage, scatter, snooker, spill, subvert, throw down, tilt, topple, turn, upset), rostogoli (bowl, roll, somersault, topple), rostogolire (rolling), se agita (agitate, billow, bustle, ferment, fluster, flutter, fret, fuss, hitch, rustle, seethe, squirm, toss, vibrate, wag), se poticni (fall, founder, hobble, stumble), se rãsturna (cant, capsize, overturn, turn), se rostogoli (bowl, roll, sprawl, trundle), deranja (annoy, be in the way, bother, come amiss to smb., derange, disarrange, discomfort, discommode, discompose, dislocate, disorder, disturb, fidget, hinder, incommode, interrupt, intrude, intrude one's presence on smb., intrude upon, ruffle, spoil, trouble). (various references)

Russian 

вваливаться (tumble in), опрокидываться (fall over, overturn, tilt, upset), беспорядок (bewilderment, box-up, chaos, clutter, confusion, disarray, disorder, disorganization, huddle, hugger mugger, litter, mess, messroom, misrule, mix, muss, pell mell, tangle, turbulence, turmoil, untidiness, upset), падение (come down, come-down, decline, descent, down, downfall, drop, fall, falling, incidence, lapse, letdown, pitch, recession, subsidence), падать (come down, drop, fall, fall down, fallen, fell, overturn, plummeted, sag, sagged, sink, subside). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

stropoštavanje, stropoštati se (collapse, fall, throw down), srušiti (crash, knock down, overthrow, subvert, topple), shvatiti (apprehend, apprise, apprize, catch, catch on, comprehend, conceive, figure out, get, grasp, realize, sense, twig, understand), rasulo (anomie, breakdown, chaos, havoc), raditi gimnastiku, pometnja (confusion, topsy turvy), pad (collapse, come down, decline, downfall, drop, fall, hang, overturn, spill), nered (clatter, disarrangement, disarray, disorder, disorganization, mess, muddle, snafu, trouble), nabasati (come across, tumble into), kotrljati se (coast). (various references)

Shona

munzepete (tumble weed). (various references)

Spanish

caída (collapse, crash, crush, decadence, decadency, demise, digression, disgrace, downfall, drop, fall, falling, gradient, hang, plunge, sag, setback, spill, taste, toss). (various references)

Swedish

tumla (fall, pitch), falla (be overthrown, die, drop, fall, falling, founder, hang, pitch, sink). (various references)

Turkish

tepetaklak olmak, takla atmak (do a somersault, flip flap, flip-flop, loop the loop, somersault, tip over, tumble down over, turn a somersault, turn over), takla (flip flap, flip-flop, loop, somersault), karıştırmak (add, admix, amalgamate, blend, churn, commingle, commix, complicate, concoct, confound, confuse, darken, diffuse, disarrange, disarray, discompose, disconcert, disorder, disorganize, disturb, embroil, entangle, ferret about, foul, foul up, hash, implicate, interfuse, interlace, interlard, intermingle, intermix, involve, inweave, jumble, jumble together, jumble up, knot, litter, make hay of smth., meld, mess, mess smth. about, mess up, mingle, mistake, mix, mix up, monkey around with, monkey with, muddle, muss, pick, poke, poke up, Ravel, ruffle, scramble, scramble together, scramble up, shuffle, snarl, stir, stir up, tamper with, tangle, tousle, trim, unsettle, weave), dönme (apostasy, circumvolution, conversion, convert, cycle, deflection, deflexion, facing, gyration, loop, proselyte, renegade, rotation, spin, swing, torsion, turn, turning, twist, veer, wheel, whirligig, winding), dönmek (abjure, apostatize, bear, budge from, call back, change one's mind, chop about, chop round, circle, come back, come home, deflect, face, front, get round, go back, go back on, gyrate, pivot, put about, recall, recant, reel, regress, renege, repass, return, return to, revert, revolve, rotate, round, screw, sheer from, slew, slue, spin, swallow, swerve, swim, swing, switch, switch to, turn, turn back, turn one's coat, turn over, turn round, turn up, twist, veer, veer round, wheel, wheel about, wheel around, whirl), düşüş (collapse, comedown, cutback, decline, decrease, downgrade, drop, ebb, ebb tide, eclipse, fall, falling, purler, recession, recessional, reduction, scale down, sinking, spill), düşme (descent, downfall, drop, fall, falling away, falling down, falling off, flop, precipitation, sag, scale down, slump, spill), düşmek (behoove, behove, collapse, come down, come down in the world, crash, crumble, crumple, crumple up, decline, decrease, deduct, degrade, dive, droop, drop, drop down, drop off, ebb, end up, fall, fall among, fall down, fall from, fall in a heap, fall off, fall on, fall on evil days, fall over, go down, land, lapse, pitch, plonk, plunge, plunk, recede, rest with, sag, scale down, sink, sink into, step down, subside into, take a toss, tumble down), dağıtmak (be on the loose, bestrew, break on, crack up, deal, deal out, decompose, deliver, demount, deploy, diffuse, disband, disject, disjoint, dismantle, dispel, dispense, disperse, disrupt, dissipate, dissolve, distribute, divert, Dot, drown, fling off, hand out, issue, litter, mete out, pass out, rag, rough up, ruffle, rumple, scatter, strew), bozmak (abash, abolish, adulterate, affect, alloy, annihilate, annul, baffle, ball up, barbarize, bedevil, blemish, botch, break, break down, break off, break on, bugger, bugger up, bust, cash, change, circumvent, confound, confuse, contaminate, corrupt, cross, damage, debase, debauch, decay, declare off, deface, defile, destroy, deteriorate, disappoint, disarray, discolor, discolour, discomfit, discomfort, discompose, discountenance, dislocate, dismount, disorder, disrupt, dissolve, distort, disturb, downgrade, emasculate, embarrass, embroil, exchange, explode, fluff, foil, foul, foul up, fumble, garble, goof, goof up, gum up, Harry, impair, indispose, infect, infringe, lead astray, leaven, mangle, Mar, mess, murder, muss, mutilate, obliterate, pervert, pollute, put out, put out of action, put to shame, quash, queer, rattle, reverse, rot, ruffle, ruin, scotch, scupper, shatter, sour, spoil, stymie, taint, thwart, tousle, undo, unmake, upset, violate, vitiate, whittle away, whittle down, whittle off, wreck), karışıklık (bedlam, bungle, cataclysm, chaos, clamor, clamour, clutter, commotion, complexity, complication, confusion, disarrangement, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, disturbance, dogs dinner, embroilment, ferment, fermentation, fray, frenzy, fuss, fuss and kerfufle, grab bag, havoc, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, huddle, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hurly burly, imbroglio, indiscrimination, intricacy, involution, jungle, kerfufle, maziness, mess, mishmash, misrule, mix, mix up, muddle, muss, perturbation, pie, pother, pretty kettle of fish, promiscuity, Ravel, riot, rough and tumble, ruckus, ruction, snafu, snarl, snarl up, stir, swirl, tangle, topsyturvy, topsyturvydom, turbidity, turbulence, unrest, upheaval, upset, wooliness, woolliness), yuvarlanmak (bowl, roll, roll over, roll up, shoot, trickle, trundle, trundle along, wallow, welter, wheel), perende (flip flap, flip-flop, somersault), perende atmak (do a somersault, somersault, turn, turn a somersault), yıkılmak (break down, cave, cave in, collapse, come down, crack up, crumble, drop down, fall, fall down, fall over, fall to pieces, founder, go to pieces, go to ruin, shipwreck, tumble down, wither away), devrilmek (fall, fall from, fall over, overset, overturn, tilt over, tip, tip over, topple, topple down, topple over, tumble down, turn over, turn turtle, upset). (various references)

Ukrainian

сум'яття (alarm, helter-skelter, pandemonium, to-do, whirl), упасти, завалюватися (calve), перекидатися (bandy, battledore, fall over, keel over, overset, overturn, somersault, tipple, trip, upset), перекидання (canting, capsize, flip flap, move, movement, somersault, turnover, upset), падіння (bathos, come down, cracker, demission, downfall, drop, dropping, fall, falling, labefaction, subsidence, upset). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tình trạng rối tung, sự sụp đổ (crash, labefaction, ruination), sự đổ nh� o sự nh� o lộn tình trạng lộn xộn, hiểu, cái ngã bất thình lình. (various references)

Welsh

syrthio (drop, fall, stumble), cwymp (fall), codwm (fall). (various references)

tombolare. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "tumble": tumblebug, tumblebugs, tumbled, tumbledown, tumbler, tumblerful, tumblerfuls, tumblers, tumbles, tumbleweed, tumbleweeds. (additional references)

Words ending with "tumble": stumble. (additional references)

Words containing "tumble": stumblebum, stumblebums, stumbled, stumbler, stumblers, stumbles. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Tumble" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cumble, dumble, Gumble, tamble, Tamblyn, thumble, timbel, timble, tombe, trumble, tubel, tuble, tubmle, tumb, tumblet, tummle, turmbel, umble. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: bluet, blume, butle, umbel.

-2 letters: belt, blet, blue, bute, lube, lute, melt, mule, mute, tube, tule.

-3 letters: bel, bet, bum, but, elm, emu, let, leu, lum, mel, met, mut, tel, tub.

-4 letters: be, el, em, et, me, mu, um, ut.

+1 letter: mutable, stumble, tumbled, tumbler, tumbles, tumbrel.

+2 letters: ambulate, bluestem, humblest, stumbled, stumbler, stumbles, tumblers, tumbrels, umbellet.

+3 letters: ambulated, ambulates, bluestems, columbite, homebuilt, immutable, imputable, mountable, outfumble, stumblers, sublimate, sublimest, thumbhole, tumblebug, umbellate, umbellets, untamable.

+4 letters: acetabulum, antebellum, automobile, buttermilk, columbites, commutable, computable, crumbliest, ethambutol, muliebrity, multilobed, outbloomed, outclimbed, outfumbled, outfumbles, permutable, postbellum, stumblebum, sublimated, sublimates, thimbleful, thumbholes, thumbwheel, tumblebugs, tumbledown, tumblerful, tumbleweed, umbilicate.