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tumblingverbpresent participle of tumble to go down from an upright position suddenly and involuntarilythe infant stood for a moment and then tumbled on the carpet falling, slipping, stumbling, toppling, tripping collapsing, crumpling, dropping, flumping, keeling, plopping, plunking(or plonking), slumping (over)crashing, free-falling, nose-diving, plummeting, plunging, precipitating, wiping outskidding, sliding getting up, rising, standing (up), uprising to go to a lower level especially abruptlystock prices tumbled after the earnings report was released crashing, cratering, declining, descending, dipping, diving, dropping, falling, lowering, nose-diving, plummeting, plunging, sinking, skidding abating, decreasing, de-escalating, diminishing, drooping, dwindling, dying (down), ebbing, lessening, letting up, moderating, subsiding, tapering off, waningreceding, retreating arising, ascending, lifting, mounting, rising, soaring, spiking, upping accumulating, ballooning, building, burgeoning(also bourgeoning), enlarging, escalating, expanding, growing, increasing, intensifying, mushrooming, picking up, snowballing, swelling, waxing to undo the proper order or arrangement oftumbled all the clothes in her closet as she furiously searched for her favorite pair of jeans confusing, deranging, disarranging, disarraying, discomposing, disheveling(or dishevelling), disjointing, dislocating, disordering, disorganizing, disrupting, disturbing, hashing, jumbling, messing (up), mixing (up), muddling, mussing, rumpling, scrambling, shuffling, tousling, upsetting embroiling, entangling, snarling, tanglingagitating, perturbing, stirring (up), unsettlingcluttering arranging, arraying, disposing, drawing up, marshaling(or marshalling), ordering, organizing, ranging, regulating, straightening (up), tidying aligning(also alining), lining, lining up, queuing(or queueing)classifying, codifying, methodizing, systematizing, systemizingadjusting, fixinggrooming, making up, sprucing (up)unscrambling to fall down or in as a result of physical pressureall we need is one strong wind, and that old barn is going to tumble buckling, caving (in), collapsing, crumpling, foundering, giving, going, going out, imploding, yielding deflating, flattening, melting, melting downbreaking, breaking down, conking (out), crashing, dying, failing, giving out, stallingbursting, shattering, smashing, splintering, splittingcracking, crumbling, popping, snapping giving way inflating, rising, swelling in 1604 |