"tumble down" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: tumbles down [present, singular, third-person], tumbling down [participle, present], tumbled down [participle, past], tumbled down [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} tumble down (third-person singular simple present tumbles down, present participle tumbling down, simple past and past participle tumbled down)
  1. (intransitive, figuratively) To topple, collapse. Tags: figuratively, intransitive Derived forms: tumbledown [adjective] Translations (topple, collapse): 跌倒 (diēdǎo) (Chinese Mandarin), 倒塌 (dǎotā) (note: of a building) (Chinese Mandarin), luhistua (Finnish), sortua (Finnish)

Inflected forms

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