单词 | overtumble |
释义 | overtumblev. Chiefly poetic. Now rare. 1. intransitive. To tumble or fall over; to capsize. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > falling > fall [verb (intransitive)] > topple over welt13.. tiltc1390 overfalla1400 waltc1400 tirvec1425 top over tervea1450 overtumble1487 overwelta1522 to fall over1541 top1545 topple1600 tramble1609 tope1796 tottle1830 overtopple1855 whemmel1895 pitch-pole1896 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xvi. 643 In sum bargis sa feill can ga, For thair fais thame chasit swa, That thai ourtummyllit, and the men..all drownit then. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) ii. x. 115 And, fra the soyll, gret Troy, Neptunus town, Ourtumlyt to the grond. a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 33/2 The Ocean in Mountains..over-tumbling, tumbling over Rocks, Casts various Rain-bows. 1908 M. J. Cawein Reed shaken with Wind in Poems IV. xvii. 71 Haggard gravestones, mossed and crumbled, Tottered round us, or o'ertumbled In their sunken grave. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > capsize or upset overcastc1230 overturnc1300 overthrowc1330 to-turna1382 overwhelm?a1400 tilta1400 tipa1400 welt?a1400 overtiltc1400 tirvec1420 reverse?a1439 devolvec1470 subvert1479 welter?a1505 renverse1521 tumble1534 verse1556 upturn1567 overwhirl1577 rewalt1587 subverse1590 overset1599 overtumble1600 walt1611 to fetch up1615 ramvert1632 treveer1636 transvolve1644 capsize1788 upset1806 keel1828 overwelt1828 pitch-pole1851 purl1856 1600 Abp. G. Abbot Expos. Prophet Ionah 404 Yet the breath of one mortall man..doth overtumble all. 1606 G. Chapman Gentleman Vsher i. sig. B Whereof being princely prowd I scowre the streete And ouer-tumble euery man I meete. a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 218 The whole Frame built on it is ready to be over-tumbled. 1875 R. Browning Aristophanes' Apol. 280 That..I, with my bent steel, may o'ertumble town! ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > falling > fall down (something) [verb (transitive)] > fall over or upon overfallOE overtumblea1640 a1640 in T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1811) (modernized text) 238 Ock, Which, for more haste, o'ertumbleth many a rock. 1800 J. Hurdis Favorite Village iii. 76 Where roars the conflict of eternal storm, And wave o'ertumbles wave in foamy fall. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1487 |
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