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tumble up

tumble up verb: to get out of bed.

Verb

tumble up (third-person singular simple present tumbles up, present participle tumbling up, simple past and past participle tumbled up)

  1. (intransitive) To get out of bed.
  2. (transitive) To throw into confusion.

Forms of tumble up

third-person singular presenttumbles up
present participletumbling up
past participletumbled up
pasttumbled up

Questions about tumble up

What does tumble up mean?
Tumble up means to get out of bed.
What part of speech is tumble up?
Tumble up is a verb.
What is the past tense of tumble up?
The past tense of tumble up is tumbled up.

Words near tumble up in the dictionary

  1. tumble thistle
  2. tumble to
  3. tumble together
  4. tumble turn
  5. tumble turns
  6. tumble up
  7. tumble-car
  8. tumble-cars
  9. tumble-dried
  10. tumble-dries
  11. tumble-dry

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