tumble down

See also: tumbledown

English

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.
   • 2009 November 10, Scott A. Sherman, “Offense To Spark Harvard Comeback”, in The Harvard Crimson:

     After its tournament dreams came tumbling down in shocking fashion last March, the Harvard men’s hockey team has high hopes of improving upon the disappointing up-and-down 2008-09 season and making it back to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2006.

Derived terms

• tumbledown (adj)

Translations

topple, collapse

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 跌倒 (zh) (diēdǎo), 倒塌 (zh) (dǎotā) (of a building)

• Finnish: luhistua (fi), sortua (fi)
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can