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tumbles down

tumbles down is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 tumbles down

What is tumbles down the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Tumbles down is the third-person singular simple present indicative of tumble down.

Words near tumbles down in the dictionary

  1. tumblerfuls
  2. tumblerlike
  3. tumblers
  4. tumblersful
  5. tumbles
  6. tumbles down
  7. tumbles home
  8. tumbles in
  9. tumbles on
  10. tumbles to
  11. tumbles together

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