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tumbling

verbnounattested in dialogue

  • United States

The act of something that tumbles.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of tumblepresent participle and gerund of tumble

noun

  1. 1

    The act of something that tumbles.

    These so many conquests must needs bring with them many tumblings and tossings, many disturbances and changes in government[…]

    Having feasted our souls with this sublime spectacle, we ministered to the wants of the body by a plentiful breakfast, and about noon we commenced the descent, rendered ludicrous enough by various tumblings and sprawlings on the part of the more inexpert mountaineers.

    And you have left off tumbling when you waltz now?

Forms

plural
tumblings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).