“tumbled” is a form of
tumble
/ˈtʌmbl̩/ noun, verb, proper noun
Forms tumbles tumbling tumbled
- noun A fall, especially end over end. “I took a tumble down the stairs and broke my tooth.”
- noun A disorderly heap.
- noun (informal) An act of sexual intercourse.
- verb (intransitive) To fall end over end; to roll over and over.
- verb (transitive) To throw headlong.
- verb (intransitive) To perform gymnastics such as somersaults, rolls, and handsprings.
- verb (intransitive) To drop rapidly. “Share prices tumbled after the revelation about the company's impending failure.”
- verb (transitive) To smooth and polish (e.g. gemstones or pebbles) by means of a rotating tumbler.
- verb (intransitive, informal) To have sexual intercourse.
- verb (intransitive) To move or rush in a headlong or uncontrolled way.
- verb To muss, to make disorderly; to tousle or rumple. “to tumble a bed”
- proper noun A village in Llannon community, Carmarthenshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN5411).
Synonyms
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Etymology
From Middle English tumblen (“to fall over and over again, tumble”), frequentative of Middle English tumben (“to fall, leap, dance”), from Old English tumbian, from Proto-West Germanic *tumbōn, tūmōn, from Proto-Germanic *tumbōną, tūmōną (“to turn, rotate”). Cognate with Middle Dutch tumelen (whence Dutch tuimelen), Middle Low German tumelen, tummelen, German taumeln, Danish tumle, Swedish tumla, tumbla (“to tumble”), Faroese tumla, tumbla (“to walk heavily and noisily, stagger”).
Webster’s 1913
- verb To roll over, or to and fro; to throw one's self about; as, a person on pain tumbles and tosses.
- verb To roll down; to fall suddenly and violently; to be precipitated; as, to tumble from a scaffold.
- verb To turn over; to turn or throw about, as for examination or search; to roll or move in a rough, coarse, or unceremonious manner; to throw down or headlong; to precipitate; --sometimes with over, about, etc.; as, to tumble books or papers.
- verb To disturb; to rumple; as, to tumble a bed.
Etymology [OE. tumblen, AS. tumbian to turn heels over head, to dance violently; akin to D. tuimelen to fall, Sw. tumla, Dan. tumle, Icel. tumba; and cf. G. taumeln to reel, to stagger.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “tumble”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details