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tumbled down

tumbled down is the simple past and past participle of tumble down.

Meaning of tumble down

Verb

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

  1. (also, figuratively, intransitive) To topple, collapse.
    • About the time that Sylla was making ready, to put off with his Forces from Italy, beſides many other Divine Omens which befell Mithridates [VI Eupator] at Pergamos, there goes a ſtory, that the Statue of Victory, with a Crown in her hand, which the Pergamenians by Engines from above let down on...1684, Plutarch, “The Life of L[ucius] C[ornelius] Sylla”, in William Davies, transl., The Third Volume of Plutarch’s Lives. Translated from the Greek, […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], pages 240–241

Questions about tumbled down

What is tumbled down the simple past and past participle of?
Tumbled down is the simple past and past participle of tumble down.

Words near tumbled down in the dictionary

  1. tumble-turd
  2. tumble-turds
  3. tumblebug
  4. tumblebugs
  5. tumbled
  6. tumbled down
  7. tumbled home
  8. tumbled in
  9. tumbled on
  10. tumbled to
  11. tumbled together

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