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tumbled
(encz) | tumbled, |
Tumbled
(gcide) | Tumble \Tum"ble\ (t[u^]m"b'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tumbled
(t[u^]m"b'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Tumbling (t[u^]m"bl[i^]ng).]
[OE. tumblen, AS. tumbian to turn heels over head, to dance
violently; akin to D. tuimelen to fall, Sw. tumla, Dan.
tumle, Icel. tumba; and cf. G. taumeln to reel, to stagger.]
1. To roll over, or to and fro; to throw one's self about;
as, a person in pain tumbles and tosses.
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2. To roll down; to fall suddenly and violently; to be
precipitated; as, to tumble from a scaffold.
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He who tumbles from a tower surely has a greater
blow than he who slides from a molehill. --South.
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3. To play tricks by various movements and contortions of the
body; to perform the feats of an acrobat. --Rowe.
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To tumble home (Naut.), to incline inward, as the sides of
a vessel, above the bends or extreme breadth; -- used esp.
in the phrase tumbling home. Cf. Wall-sided.
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tumbledown
(mass) | tumble-down
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stumbled
(encz) | stumbled,narazil Stanstumbled,vrávoral v: Zdeněk Brož |
tumbledown
(encz) | tumbledown,polorozpadlý adj: Zdeněk Brožtumbledown,polozřícený adj: Zdeněk Brož |
battered beat-up beaten-up bedraggled broken-down dilapidated ramshackle tumble-down unsound
(gcide) | damaged \damaged\ (d[a^]m"[asl]jd), adj.
1. changed so as to reduce value, function, or other
desirable trait; -- usually not used of persons. Opposite
of undamaged. [Narrower terms: {battered, beat-up,
beaten-up, bedraggled, broken-down, dilapidated,
ramshackle, tumble-down, unsound}; {bent, crumpled,
dented}; blasted, rent, ripped, torn; broken-backed;
{burned-out(prenominal), burned out(predicate),
burnt-out(prenominal), burnt out(predicate)}; {burst,
ruptured}; corroded; cracked, crackled, crazed;
defaced, marred; hurt, weakened;
knocked-out(prenominal), knocked out; {mangled,
mutilated}; peeling; scraped, scratched;
storm-beaten] Also See blemished, broken, damaged,
destroyed, impaired, injured, unsound.
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2. Rendered imperfect by impairing the integrity of some
part, or by breaking. Opposite of unbroken. [Narrower
terms: busted; chipped; cracked; {crumbled,
fragmented}; crushed, ground; dissolved; fractured;
shattered, smashed, splintered; split; {unkept,
violated}] Also See: damaged, imperfect, injured,
unsound.
Syn: broken.
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3. being unjustly brought into disrepute; as, her damaged
reputation.
Syn: discredited.
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4. made to appear imperfect; -- especially of reputation; as,
the senator's seriously damaged reputation.
Syn: besmirched, flyblown, spotted, stained, sullied,
tainted, tarnished.
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Betumbled
(gcide) | Betumble \Be*tum"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Betumbled.]
To throw into disorder; to tumble. [R.]
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From her betumbled couch she starteth. --Shak.
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Stumbled
(gcide) | Stumble \Stum"ble\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Stumbled; p. pr. & vb.
n. Stumbling.] [OE. stumblen, stomblen; freq. of a word
akin to E. stammer. See Stammer.]
1. To trip in walking or in moving in any way with the legs;
to strike the foot so as to fall, or to endanger a fall;
to stagger because of a false step.
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There stumble steeds strong and down go all.
--Chaucer.
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The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know at
what they stumble. --Prov. iv.
19.
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2. To walk in an unsteady or clumsy manner.
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He stumbled up the dark avenue. --Sir W.
Scott.
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3. To fall into a crime or an error; to err.
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He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and
there is none occasion og stumbling in him. --1 John
ii. 10.
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4. To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without
design; to fall or light by chance; -- with on, upon, or
against.
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Ovid stumbled, by some inadvertency, upon Livia in a
bath. --Dryden.
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Forth as she waddled in the brake,
A gray goose stumbled on a snake. --C. Smart.
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Tumbled
(gcide) | Tumble \Tum"ble\ (t[u^]m"b'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tumbled
(t[u^]m"b'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Tumbling (t[u^]m"bl[i^]ng).]
[OE. tumblen, AS. tumbian to turn heels over head, to dance
violently; akin to D. tuimelen to fall, Sw. tumla, Dan.
tumle, Icel. tumba; and cf. G. taumeln to reel, to stagger.]
1. To roll over, or to and fro; to throw one's self about;
as, a person in pain tumbles and tosses.
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2. To roll down; to fall suddenly and violently; to be
precipitated; as, to tumble from a scaffold.
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He who tumbles from a tower surely has a greater
blow than he who slides from a molehill. --South.
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3. To play tricks by various movements and contortions of the
body; to perform the feats of an acrobat. --Rowe.
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To tumble home (Naut.), to incline inward, as the sides of
a vessel, above the bends or extreme breadth; -- used esp.
in the phrase tumbling home. Cf. Wall-sided.
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Tumble-down
(gcide) | Tumble-down \Tum"ble-down`\, a.
Ready to fall; dilapidated; ruinous; as, a tumble-down house.
[Colloq.]
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Tumbledung
(gcide) | Tumbledung \Tum"ble*dung`\, n. (Zool.)
Any one of numerous species of scaraboid beetles belonging to
Scarabaeus, Copris, Phanaeus, and allied genera. The
female lays her eggs in a globular mass of dung which she
rolls by means of her hind legs to a burrow excavated in the
earth in which she buries it.
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