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Synonyms for tumble

  • verb
  • noun

Most common

roll around get onto cotton on crumble mess up fall over whirl topple

Synonyms by meaning

Verb

1. Roll — to have sexual intercourse

get it, roll, roll around, pound, have sex, bump uglies vulgar slang

2. Get onto

get onto, catch on, cotton on, twig, latch on, get wise slang

3. Crumble

crumble, collapse, crumple

4. Mess up — to muss, to make disorderly; to tousle or rumple

mess up, touse

Other

topple, fall over, toss, pitch, heave, whirl, precipitate, flounder, disturb, realize, realise UK, tip

Noun

1. Fall

fall, spill

Other

break-down

Definitions

  1. v. 1

    To have sexual intercourse.

  2. v. 2

    To muss, to make disorderly; to tousle or rumple.

  3. v. 3

    To fall end over end; to roll over and over.

  4. n. 1

    A fall, especially end over end.

    I took a tumble down the stairs and broke my tooth.

Related words

Word family
tumbler tumbleset
Phrases
tumble on tumble dryer tumble home tumble turn tumble down tumble in rough-and-tumble

Forms

Plural
tumbles → falls, spills, break-downs…
Past participle
tumbled
e.g. tumbled → rolled, pounded, twigged, crumbled…

Example sentences

  • crumble Leon and Rima’s relationship continued to crumble.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
tumblerising
crumblerising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
tip1
4 letters
fall1, roll1, toss1, twig1
5 letters
pitch1, pound1, spill1, whirl1, heave1, touse
6 letters
topple2
7 letters
realize3, realise3, disturb2, crumble2, crumple2
8 letters
collapse2, flounder2
11 letters
precipitate4

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (topple2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
dégringoler
Italiano
ruzzolare
Deutsch
hinunterfallen