somersault
31somersault — Synonyms and related words: be lost, capsizal, capsize, culbute, founder, go down, keel, keel over, overset, overthrow, overturn, pitchpole, revolution, scuttle, sink, somerset, spill, subversion, turn over, turn turtle, turnover, upset, upset… …
32somersault — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. See inversion. II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. flip, tumble, roll, revolution …
33somersault — [16] Somersaults have no connection with ‘summer’. The first element of the word means etymologically ‘over’. It comes from Old French sombresault, an alteration of an earlier sobresault. And this in turn was acquired from Provençal *sobresaut, a …
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35somersault — som·er·sault || sÊŒmÉ™(r)sÉ”Ëlt n. forward or backward roll performed by the body v. make a complete forward or backward roll …
36somersault — n. Somerset …
37somersault — som·er·sault …
38somersault — [16] Somersaults have no connection with ‘summer’. The first element of the word means etymologically ‘over’. It comes from Old French sombresault, an alteration of an earlier sobresault. And this in turn was acquired from Provençal *sobresaut, a …
39half-somersault — half′ som′ersault n …
40Somerset — Somersault Som er*sault, Somerset Som er*set, n. [F. soubresaut a jump, leap, OF. soubresault, It. soprassalto an overleap, fr. L. supra over + saltus a leap, fr. salire to leap; or the French may be from Sp. sobresalto a sudden asault, a… …