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Trembling vs Tumbling - What's the difference?

trembling | tumbling |

As nouns the difference between trembling and tumbling

is that trembling is a tremble while tumbling is the act of something that tumbles.

As verbs the difference between trembling and tumbling

is that trembling is while tumbling is .

trembling

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a tremble

    • Verb

    (head)

    • tumbling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of something that tumbles.
  • * (James Howell)
    • These so many conquests must needs bring with them many tumblings and tossings, many disturbances and changes in government
  • * 1838 , Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humorist (page 176)
    • Having feasted our souls with this sublime spectacle, we ministered to the wants of the body by a plentiful breakfast, and about noon we commenced the descent, rendered ludicrous enough by various tumblings and sprawlings on the part of the more inexpert mountaineers.