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Tumbling vs Crumbling - What's the difference?

tumbling | crumbling |

As verbs the difference between tumbling and crumbling

is that tumbling is while crumbling is .

As nouns the difference between tumbling and crumbling

is that tumbling is the act of something that tumbles while crumbling is material that has crumbled away; crumbs.

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.

    crumbling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Material that has crumbled away; crumbs.
  • * Henry James, The Aspern Papers
    • Blank I call it, but it was figured over with the patches that please a painter, repaired breaches, crumblings of plaster, extrusions of brick that had turned pink with time