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Antonyms for tumble
ˈtʌm bəltum·ble
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tumble
Synonyms:
fall, topple, precipitate, derange, rumple
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tumblenoun
an acrobatic feat of rolling or turning end over end
spill, tumble, fallverb
a sudden drop from an upright position
"he had a nasty spill on the ice"
Synonyms:
gloaming, autumn, declension, declination, pin, spillage, gloam, drop, downfall, crepuscle, descent, capitulation, release, decline, declivity, downslope, dusk, surrender, evenfall, dip, fall, wasteweir, crepuscule, twilight, free fall, spill, spillway, nightfalltumble, toppleverb
fall down, as if collapsing
"The tower of the World Trade Center tumbled after the plane hit it"
Synonyms:
twig, topple, latch on, catch on, crumple, whirl around, whirl, get onto, get it, collapse, crumble, cotton on, tip, get wise, break downtopple, tumble, tipverb
cause to topple or tumble by pushing
Synonyms:
whirl around, lean, tippytoe, tip off, topple, bung, get onto, catch on, tip, break down, collapse, tiptoe, latch on, fee, tilt, cotton on, whirl, crumble, get it, tap, twig, angle, crumple, get wise, slanttumbleverb
roll over and over, back and forth
Synonyms:
twig, topple, latch on, catch on, crumple, whirl around, whirl, get onto, get it, collapse, crumble, cotton on, tip, get wise, break downwhirl, tumble, whirl aroundverb
fly around
"The clothes tumbled in the dryer"; "rising smoke whirled in the air"
Synonyms:
whirl around, spin around, get it, get onto, gyrate, spin, swirl, break down, tip, topple, collapse, cotton on, latch on, catch on, eddy, whirl, crumble, twirl, whirlpool, twiddle, purl, birl, twig, get wise, crumple, reelcrumble, crumple, tumble, break down, collapseverb
fall apart
"the building crumbled after the explosion"; "Negotiations broke down"
Synonyms:
topple, crease, collapse, analyze, buckle, crack, crack up, rumple, cave in, fail, snap, twig, whirl, go bad, break up, decay, cotton on, give, crock up, knit, get wise, conk out, analyse, whirl around, fall apart, give out, crumble, cockle, catch on, go, fall in, get onto, wrinkle, break, crumple, pucker, die, decompose, get it, latch on, dissect, break down, give way, crush, take apart, dilapidate, burst, lose it, crinkle, founder, tiptumbleverb
throw together in a confused mass
"They tumbled the teams with no apparent pattern"
Synonyms:
twig, topple, latch on, catch on, crumple, whirl around, whirl, get onto, get it, collapse, crumble, cotton on, tip, get wise, break downcatch on, get wise, get onto, tumble, latch on, cotton on, twig, get itverb
understand, usually after some initial difficulty
"She didn't know what her classmates were plotting but finally caught on"
Synonyms:
whirl around, topple, tip, break down, get onto, fasten on, latch on, collapse, cotton on, whirl, seize on, crumble, hook on, catch on, twig, take up, get it, get wise, crumpletumbleverb
fall suddenly and sharply
"Prices tumbled after the devaluation of the currency"
Synonyms:
twig, topple, latch on, catch on, crumple, whirl around, whirl, get onto, get it, collapse, crumble, cotton on, tip, get wise, break downtumbleverb
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"
Synonyms:
twig, topple, latch on, catch on, crumple, whirl around, whirl, get onto, get it, collapse, crumble, cotton on, tip, get wise, break downtumbleverb
suffer a sudden downfall, overthrow, or defeat
Synonyms:
twig, topple, latch on, catch on, crumple, whirl around, whirl, get onto, get it, collapse, crumble, cotton on, tip, get wise, break downtumbleverb
do gymnastics, roll and turn skillfully
Synonyms:
twig, topple, latch on, catch on, crumple, whirl around, whirl, get onto, get it, collapse, crumble, cotton on, tip, get wise, break down
How to use tumble in a sentence?
It seems a little more antagonistic, so that part has changed a little bit, but it's not like this was' Leave it to Beaver,'' Mayberry R.F.D.,'' The Donna Reed Show,' it was never a Pollyanna, Mary Poppins place. It was always rough and tumble politics.
By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear. Dare to look in thy chest; for 'Tis thine own: And tumble up and down what thou findst there. Who cannot rest till he good fellows find, he breaks up house, turns out of doors his mind.
We had some nice success, and our third partner encouraged us to expand the brand locally, so we opened two other locations, our partner was the business guy, and we were essentially investors. We put a lot of faith in him. But there was a lack of attention, and those two locations took a bit of a tumble. Then our partner just disappeared.
This is very much a preliminary study, we don't have exact evidence from where this is coming from -- it could be that most of these materials may be coming from house dust and the use of plastic containers and packaging or, for example, nylon fibers from our tumble dryer -- and this could potentially outweigh the environmental routes of exposure.
I think that what we wanted was to give the girls the chance to get a step up on us, that they would be able to have insights and learnings and connections that we didn't have at their age that would enable them to navigate a world that is pretty rough and tumble and tricky but full of positives and possibles, we don't want them to have to say' I wish I would have known,'.
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