transcription, транскрипция: [ tʌmb(ə)l ]
( tumbles, tumbling, tumbled)
1.
If someone or something tumbles somewhere, they fall there with a rolling or bouncing movement.
A small boy tumbled off a third floor fire escape...
He fell to the ground, and the gun tumbled out of his hand.
VERB : V prep / adv , V prep / adv
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Tumble is also a noun.
He injured his ribs in a tumble from his horse.
N-COUNT : usu sing
2.
If prices or levels of something are tumbling , they are decreasing rapidly. ( JOURNALISM )
House prices have tumbled by almost 30 per cent in real terms since mid-1989...
Share prices continued to tumble today on the Tokyo stock market.
...tumbling inflation.
VERB : V by/from/to amount , V , V-ing
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Tumble is also a noun.
Oil prices took a tumble yesterday.
N-COUNT : usu sing
3.
If water tumbles , it flows quickly over an uneven surface.
Waterfalls crash and tumble over rocks.
...the aromatic pines and tumbling streams of the Zonba Plateau.
VERB : V prep , V-ing
4.
If you say that someone tumbles into a situation or place, you mean that they get into it without being fully in control of themselves or knowing what they are doing. ( mainly BRIT )
Many mothers and children tumble into poverty after divorce...
VERB : V into n
5.
see also rough and tumble