spill tumble fall | a sudden drop from an upright position, he had a nasty spill on the ice |
tumble | an acrobatic feat of rolling or turning end over end |
hassle scuffle tussle dogfight rough-and-tumble | disorderly fighting |
tumble-dryer tumble drier | a clothes dryer that spins wet clothes inside a cylinder with heated air |
witchgrass witch grass old witchgrass old witch grass tumble grass Panicum capillare | North American grass with slender brushy panicles, often a weed on cultivated land |
tumble | do gymnastics, roll and turn skillfully |
tumble | suffer a sudden downfall, overthrow, or defeat |
tumble | put clothes in a tumbling barrel, where they are whirled about in hot air, usually with the purpose of drying, Wash in warm water and tumble dry |
tumble dry | dry by spinning with hot air inside a cylinder, These fabrics are delicate and cannot be tumbled dry |
tumble | fall suddenly and sharply, Prices tumbled after the devaluation of the currency |
catch on get wise get onto tumble latch on cotton on twig get it | understand, usually after some initial difficulty, She didn't know what her classmates were plotting but finally caught on |
tumble | throw together in a confused mass, They tumbled the teams with no apparent pattern |
tumble | roll over and over, back and forth |
tumble topple | fall down, as if collapsing, The tower of the World Trade Center tumbled after the plane hit it |
crumble crumple tumble break down collapse | fall apart, the building crumbled after the explosion, Negotiations broke down |
whirl tumble whirl around | fly around, The clothes tumbled in the dryer, rising smoke whirled in the air |
topple tumble tip | cause to topple or tumble by pushing |
bedraggled broken-down derelict dilapidated ramshackle tatterdemalion tumble-down | in deplorable condition, a street of bedraggled tenements, a broken-down fence, a ramshackle old pier, a tumble-down shack |
rough-and-tumble bare-knuckle bare-knuckled | characterized by disorderly action and disregard for rules, a rough-and-tumble fight, rough-and-tumble politics, undisguised bare-knuckle capitalism |