n. 25B6; verb
he tumbled over : FALL (OVER/DOWN), topple over, lose one's balance, keel over, take a spill, go headlong, go head over heels, trip (up), stumble; informal come a cropper.
they all tumbled from the room : HURRY, rush, scramble, scurry, bound, pile, bundle.
a brook tumbled over the rocks : CASCADE, fall, flow, pour, spill, stream.
oil prices tumbled : PLUMMET, plunge, fall, dive, nosedive, drop, slump, slide, decrease, decline; informal crash.
(informal) I tumbled to what was happening. : See realize sense 1.
rise.
25B6; noun
I took a tumble in the nettles : FALL, trip, spill; informal nosedive, header, cropper.
a tumble in share prices : DROP, fall, plunge, dive, nosedive, slump, decline, collapse; informal crash.
rise.