tumbling

Suffer a sudden downfall, overthrow, or defeat

• Fall apart

• Fall suddenly and sharply

• Understand, usually after some initial difficulty

• Do gymnastics, roll and turn skillfully

• Fly around, as of paper on the sidewalk, or clothes in a dryer, or rising smoke in the wind

• Roll over and over, back and forth

• Fall down, as if collapsing

• The gymnastic moves of an acrobat

• Throw together in a confused mass

• Also used metaphorically