tumble
verb/ˈtʌmbəl/
Frequency rank: #8,531 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
to fall or roll downward in an uncontrolled way.
Example sentence
She watched the leaves tumble down from the trees in the autumn wind.
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