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Bounce

(with reference to an object, especially a ball) move quickly up, back, or away from a surface after hitting it
He was bouncing the ball against the wall
The ball bounced away and he chased it
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Tumble

To perform acrobatic feats such as somersaults, rolls, or twists.
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Bounce

Jump repeatedly up and down, typically on something springy
Emma was happily bouncing up and down on the mattress
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Tumble

To fall, roll, or move end over end
The rocks tumbled down the hill. The kittens tumbled over each other. The asteroids tumble through space.
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Bounce

(of a cheque) be returned by a bank to the payee when there are not enough funds in the drawer's account to meet it
A further two cheques of £160 also bounced
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Tumble

To spill, roll out, or emerge in confusion or disorder
Toys tumbled out of the closet.
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Bounce

Eject (a troublemaker) forcibly from a nightclub or similar establishment.
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Tumble

To pitch headlong; fall
Tumbled on the ice.
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Bounce

Pressurize (someone) into doing something, typically by presenting them with a fait accompli
The government should beware being bounced into any ill-considered foreign gamble
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Tumble

To move quickly or awkwardly
We tumbled into the kitchen for lunch.
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Bounce

A rebound of a ball or other object
The wicket was causing the occasional erratic bounce
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Tumble

To hang down
Her hair tumbled onto her shoulders.
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Bounce

An act of jumping or of moving up and down jerkily
Every bounce of the truck brought them into fresh contact
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Tumble

To collapse
The wall tumbled down.
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Bounce

To rebound after having struck an object or a surface.
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Tumble

To undergo a decline in position, status, or fortune
He tumbled from high office.
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Bounce

To move jerkily; bump
The car bounced over the potholes.
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Tumble

To decrease
Prices tumbled.
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Bounce

To bound
Children bouncing into the room.
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Tumble

To come upon accidentally; happen on
We tumbled on a fine restaurant.
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Bounce

To be left unpaid because of an overdrawn account
A check that bounced.
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Tumble

(Slang) To come to a sudden understanding; catch on
Tumbled to the reality that he had been cheated.
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Bounce

(Computers) To be sent back by a mail server as undeliverable
That email bounced because I used "com" instead of "net.".
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Tumble

To cause to fall or collapse; bring down
The earthquake tumbled the wall.
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Bounce

(Baseball) To hit a ground ball to an infielder
The batter bounced out to the shortstop.
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Tumble

To put, spill, or toss haphazardly
Tumbled the extra parts into a box.
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Bounce

To cause to strike an object or a surface and rebound
Bounce a ball on the sidewalk.
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Tumble

To toss or whirl in a drum, tumbler, or tumbling box
The dryer tumbles the clothes.
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Bounce

To present or propose for comment or approval. Often used with off
Bounced a few ideas off my boss.
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Tumble

To cause to lose position, status, or fortune
A scandal tumbled the government.
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Bounce

To expel by force
Bounced him from the bar.
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Tumble

An act of tumbling; a fall.
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Bounce

To dismiss from employment.
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Tumble

A decrease, as in value
Home prices took a tumble.
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Bounce

To write (a check) on an overdrawn bank account.
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Tumble

A confused or disordered collection or amount of something
A tumble of shacks by the river.
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Bounce

A rebound, as of a ball from the ground.
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Tumble

A fall, especially end over end.
I took a tumble down the stairs and broke my tooth.
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Bounce

A sudden bound or upward movement
The bike went over the rock with a bounce.
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Tumble

A disorderly heap.
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Bounce

The capacity to rebound; spring
A ball with bounce.
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Tumble

(informal) An act of sexual intercourse.
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Bounce

A sudden increase
Got a bounce in the polls.
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Tumble

(intransitive) To fall end over end; to roll over and over.
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Bounce

Cheerfulness or liveliness
"He had managed to recover much of his bounce and spirit" (Paul Auster).
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Tumble

(intransitive) To perform gymnastics such as somersaults, rolls, and handsprings.
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Bounce

(Slang) Expulsion; dismissal
Was given the bounce from the job.
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Tumble

(intransitive) To drop rapidly.
Share prices tumbled after the revelation about the company's impending failure.
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Bounce

A fast, energetic style of hip-hop originating in New Orleans and characterized by repetitive, often sexual call-and-response lyrics.
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Tumble

(transitive) To smoothe and polish, e.g., gemstones or pebbles, by means of a rotating tumbler.
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Bounce

A style of dance performed to this music characterized by rapid body movements, especially of the gluteal and hamstring muscles in a way that resembles bouncing while keeping the feet on the ground.
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Tumble

To have sexual intercourse.
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Bounce

Chiefly British Loud, arrogant speech; bluster.
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Tumble

(intransitive) To move or rush in a headlong or uncontrolled way.
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Bounce

(intransitive) To change the direction of motion after hitting an obstacle.
The tennis ball bounced off the wall before coming to rest in the ditch.
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Tumble

To muss, to make disorderly; to tousle or rumple.
To tumble a bed
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Bounce

(intransitive) To move quickly up and then down, or vice versa, once or repeatedly.
He bounces nervously on his chair.
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Tumble

(cryptocurrency) To obscure the audit trail of funds by means of a tumbler.
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Bounce

(transitive) To cause to move quickly up and down, or back and forth, once or repeatedly.
He bounced the child on his knee.
The children were bouncing a ball against a wall.
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Tumble

To comprehend; often in tumble to.
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Bounce

To suggest or introduce (an idea, etc.) to (off or by) somebody, in order to gain feedback.
I'm meeting Bob later to bounce some ideas off him about the new product range.
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Tumble

To roll over, or to and fro; to throw one's self about; as, a person in pain tumbles and tosses.
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Bounce

(intransitive) To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound.
She bounced happily into the room.
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Tumble

To roll down; to fall suddenly and violently; to be precipitated; as, to tumble from a scaffold.
He who tumbles from a tower surely has a greater blow than he who slides from a molehill.
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Bounce

To move rapidly (between).
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Tumble

To play tricks by various movements and contortions of the body; to perform the feats of an acrobat.
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Bounce

To be refused by a bank because it is drawn on insufficient funds.
We can’t accept further checks from you, as your last one bounced.
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Tumble

To turn over; to turn or throw about, as for examination or search; to roll or move in a rough, coarse, or unceremonious manner; to throw down or headlong; to precipitate; - sometimes with over, about, etc.; as, to tumble books or papers.
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Bounce

To fail to cover have sufficient funds for (a draft presented against one's account).
He tends to bounce a check or two toward the end of each month, before his payday.
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Tumble

To disturb; to rumple; as, to tumble a bed.
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Bounce

To leave.
Let’s wrap this up, I gotta bounce.
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Tumble

Act of tumbling, or rolling over; a fall.
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Bounce

To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment.
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Tumble

An acrobatic feat of rolling or turning end over end
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Bounce

(sometimes employing the preposition with) To have sexual intercourse.
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Tumble

A sudden drop from an upright position;
He had a nasty spill on the ice
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Bounce

To attack unexpectedly.
The squadron was bounced north of the town.
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Tumble

Fall down, as if collapsing;
The tower of the World Trade Center tumbled after the plane hit it
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Bounce

To turn power off and back on; to reset.
See if it helps to bounce the router.
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Tumble

Cause to topple or tumble by pushing
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Bounce

To return undelivered.
What’s your new email address? The old one bounces.
The girl in the bar told me her address was [email protected], but my mail to that address was bounced back by the server.
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Tumble

Roll over and over, back and forth
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Bounce

To land hard and lift off again due to excess momentum.
The student pilot bounced several times during his landing.
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Tumble

Fly around;
The clothes tumbled in the dryer
Rising smoke whirled in the air
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Bounce

To land hard at unsurvivable velocity with fatal results.
After the mid-air collision, his rig failed and he bounced.
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Tumble

Fall apart;
The building crimbled after the explosion
Negociations broke down
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Bounce

To mix (two or more tracks of a multi-track audio tape recording) and record the result onto a single track, in order to free up tracks for further material to be added.
Bounce tracks two and three to track four, then record the cowbell on track two.
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Tumble

Throw together in a confused mass;
They tumbled the teams with no apparent pattern
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Bounce

To bully; to scold.
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Tumble

Understand, usually after some initial difficulty;
She didn't know what her classmates were plotting but finally caught on
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Bounce

To boast; to bluster.
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Tumble

Fall suddenly and sharply;
Prices tumbled after the devaluation of the currency
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Bounce

(archaic) To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; to knock loudly.
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Tumble

Put clothes in a tumbling barrel, where they are whirled about in hot air, usually with the purpose of drying;
Wash in warm water and tumble dry
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Bounce

A change of direction of motion after hitting the ground or an obstacle.
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Tumble

Suffer a sudden downfall, overthrow, or defeat
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Bounce

A movement up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly.
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Tumble

Do gymnastics, roll and turn skillfully
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Bounce

(internet) An email that returns to the sender because of a delivery failure.
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Bounce

The sack, dismissal.
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Bounce

A bang, boom.
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Bounce

(archaic) A drink based on brandyW.
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Bounce

(archaic) A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump.
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Bounce

(archaic) Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer.
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Bounce

Scyliorhinus canicula, a European dogfish.
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Bounce

(uncountable) A genre of hip-hop music of New Orleans, characterized by often lewd call-and-response chants.
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Bounce

Drugs.
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Bounce

Swagger.
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Bounce

A good beat in music.
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Bounce

A talent for leaping.
Them pro-ballers got bounce!
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Bounce

To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly.
Another bounces as hard as he can knock.
Against his bosom bounced his heaving heart.
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Bounce

To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound; as, she bounced into the room.
Out bounced the mastiff.
Bounced off his arm+chair.
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Bounce

To boast; to talk big; to bluster.
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Bounce

To drive against anything suddenly and violently; to bump; to thump.
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Bounce

To cause to bound or rebound; sometimes, to toss.
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Bounce

To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment.
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Bounce

To bully; to scold.
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Bounce

A sudden leap or bound; a rebound.
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Bounce

A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump.
The bounce burst open the door.
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Bounce

An explosion, or the noise of one.
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Bounce

Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer.
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Bounce

A dogfish of Europe (Scyllium catulus).
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Bounce

With a sudden leap; suddenly.
This impudent puppy comes bounce in upon me.
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Bounce

The quality of a substance that is able to rebound
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Bounce

A light springing movement upwards or forwards
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Bounce

Rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts)
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Bounce

Spring back; spring away from an impact;
The rubber ball bounced
These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide
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Bounce

Hit something so that it bounces;
Bounce a ball
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Bounce

Move up and down repeatedly
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Bounce

Come back after being refused;
The check bounced
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Bounce

Leap suddenly;
He bounced to his feet
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Bounce

Refuse to accept and send back;
Bounce a check
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Bounce

Eject from the premises;
The ex-boxer's job is to bounce people who want to enter this private club
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