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Fallen vs Tumbled - What's the difference?

fallen | tumbled | Synonyms |

Fallen is a synonym of tumbled.


As a noun fallen

is .

As a verb tumbled is

(tumble).

fallen

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • having dropped by the force of gravity
    • fallen raindrops
  • (literary) killed in battle
    • to honor fallen soldiers
  • having lost one's chastity
    • a fallen woman
  • having collapsed
    • a fallen building

    Synonyms

    * (having collapsed): collapsed

    Derived terms

    * chap-fallen, chapfallen * chop-fallen, chopfallen * crest-fallen, crestfallen * down-fallen, downfallen * fallen angel * fallen arch * fallen building clause * fallen flag * fallen fleece * fallen-in * fallen instep * fallenness * fallen-off * fallen star * fallen woman * heaven-fallen * how are the mighty fallen * infallen * jaw-fallen * new-fallen * root-fallen * sick-fallen * stitchfallen * trade-fallen * unfallen * wind-fallen, windfallen

    Noun

    (fallen)
  • (pluralonly) The dead
  • (pluralonly) Casualties of battle or war.
  • (countable, Christianity) One who has fallen, as from grace.
  • *

    • tumbled

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (tumble)

    • tumble

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fall.
    • I took a tumble down the stairs and broke my tooth.
  • An act of sexual intercourse.
  • * John Betjeman, Group Life: Letchworth
    • Wouldn't it be jolly now, / To take our Aertex panters off / And have a jolly tumble in / The jolly, jolly sun?
  • * 1979 , Martine, Sexual Astrology (page 219)
    • When you've just had a tumble between the sheets and are feeling rumpled and lazy, she may want to get up so she can make the bed.

    Derived terms

    * rough and tumble * take a tumble * tumble dryer * tumbler * give a tumble

    Verb

    (tumbl)
  • (lb) To fall end over end.
  • *(Robert South) (1634–1716)
  • *:He who tumbles from a tower surely has a greater blow than he who slides from a molehill.
  • *
  • *:“Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are'' pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling ''à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better.”
  • To perform gymnastics such as somersaults, rolls, and handsprings.
  • :(Rowe)
  • To roll over and over.
  • *1908 , (Kenneth Grahame), (The Wind in the Willows)
  • *:The two animals tumbled over each other in their eagerness to get inside, and heard the door shut behind them with great joy and relief.
  • (lb) To have sexual intercourse.
  • (lb) To smooth and polish a rough surface on relatively small parts.
  • To muss, to make disorderly; to tousle or rumple.
  • :

    • Derived terms

    * tumble to