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tumbling down

tumbling down is the present participle and gerund 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 tumbling down

What is tumbling down the present participle and gerund of?
Tumbling down is the present participle and gerund of tumble down.

Words near tumbling down in the dictionary

  1. tumbleweeds
  2. tumblification
  3. Tumblin
  4. tumblin'
  5. tumbling
  6. tumbling down
  7. tumbling E chart
  8. tumbling E charts
  9. tumbling flower beetle
  10. tumbling flower beetles
  11. tumbling home

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