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Fall   /fɔl/  /fɑl/   Listen
Fall

verb
(past fell; past part. fallen; pres. part. falling)
1.
Descend in free fall under the influence of gravity.  "The unfortunate hiker fell into a crevasse"
2.
Move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way.  Synonyms: come down, descend, go down.  "The barometer is falling" , "The curtain fell on the diva" , "Her hand went up and then fell again"
3.
Pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind.  "She fell ill" , "They fell out of favor" , "Fall in love" , "Fall asleep" , "Fall prey to an imposter" , "Fall into a strange way of thinking" , "She fell to pieces after she lost her work"
4.
Come under, be classified or included.  Synonym: come.  "This comes under a new heading"
5.
Fall from clouds.  Synonyms: come down, precipitate.  "Vesuvius precipitated its fiery, destructive rage on Herculaneum"
6.
Suffer defeat, failure, or ruin.  "Fall by the wayside"
7.
Die, as in battle or in a hunt.  "Several deer have fallen to the same gun" , "The shooting victim fell dead"
8.
Touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly.  Synonyms: shine, strike.  "The sun shone on the fields" , "The light struck the golden necklace" , "A strange sound struck my ears"
9.
Be captured.
10.
Occur at a specified time or place.  "The accent falls on the first syllable"
11.
Decrease in size, extent, or range.  Synonyms: decrease, diminish, lessen.  "The cabin pressure fell dramatically" , "Her weight fell to under a hundred pounds" , "His voice fell to a whisper"
12.
Yield to temptation or sin.
13.
Lose office or power.  "The Qing Dynasty fell with Sun Yat-sen"
14.
To be given by assignment or distribution.  "The onus fell on us" , "The pressure to succeed fell on the youngest student"
15.
Move in a specified direction.
16.
Be due.
17.
Lose one's chastity.
18.
To be given by right or inheritance.
19.
Come into the possession of.  Synonym: accrue.
20.
Fall to somebody by assignment or lot.  Synonym: light.  "It fell to me to notify the parents of the victims"
21.
Be inherited by.  Synonyms: devolve, pass, return.  "The land returned to the family" , "The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead"
22.
Slope downward.
23.
Lose an upright position suddenly.  Synonym: fall down.  "Her hair fell across her forehead"
24.
Drop oneself to a lower or less erect position.  "He fell to his knees"
25.
Fall or flow in a certain way.  Synonyms: flow, hang.  "Her long black hair flowed down her back"
26.
Assume a disappointed or sad expression.  "His crest fell"
27.
Be cast down.
28.
Come out; issue.
29.
Be born, used chiefly of lambs.
30.
Begin vigorously.
31.
Go as if by falling.
32.
Come as if by falling.  Synonyms: descend, settle.  "Silence fell"
noun
1.
The season when the leaves fall from the trees.  Synonym: autumn.
2.
A sudden drop from an upright position.  Synonyms: spill, tumble.
3.
The lapse of mankind into sinfulness because of the sin of Adam and Eve.
4.
A downward slope or bend.  Synonyms: declension, declination, decline, declivity, descent, downslope.
5.
A lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity.
6.
A sudden decline in strength or number or importance.  Synonym: downfall.
7.
A movement downward.
8.
The act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions).  Synonyms: capitulation, surrender.
9.
The time of day immediately following sunset.  Synonyms: crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilight.  "They finished before the fall of night"
10.
When a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat.  Synonym: pin.
11.
A free and rapid descent by the force of gravity.  Synonym: drop.
12.
A sudden sharp decrease in some quantity.  Synonyms: dip, drop, free fall.  "There was a drop in pressure in the pulmonary artery" , "A dip in prices" , "When that became known the price of their stock went into free fall"



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"Fall" Quotes from Famous Books



... guessed he would feel he had to stand in. That's a man who can't see any one in trouble." Then she added, with a little whimsical sigh, "He had a bonanza harvest last fall, ...
— Hawtrey's Deputy • Harold Bindloss
... tide of a single life, but it is a tide that flows but once, and, what is still worse, it ebbs faster than it flows, and leaves many a hapless voyager aground. I am one, you see, that has experienced the fall I am describing. I have lost my tide; it passed by while every throb of my heart was on the wing for the salvation of America, and I have now, as contentedly as I can, made myself a little tower of walls on that shore that has the ...
— Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest • Robert Green Ingersoll
... to his corporal, in a flurry of excitement, "throw open the gate—quick! Fall in, men! Dress up—ready to present arms! See that you do ...
— The Free Lances - A Romance of the Mexican Valley • Mayne Reid
... in this class of creatures, and which expresses itself so variously in different kinds. This must be in all cases a painful and debilitating emotion, and when the bird drops down to the earth its pain has caused it to fall as surely as if it had received a wound or had been suddenly attacked by some grievous malady; and when it flutters on the ground it is for the moment incapable of flight, and its efforts to recover ...
— Birds in Town and Village • W. H. Hudson
... effort to find the absentee is therefore a first requisite in dealing with family desertion. Unfortunately, many case workers, having started bravely and exhausted the first crop of clues, become discouraged and fall back on the supposition that the man is permanently out of the scene, and that it only remains to make plans for the family. Numberless case histories attest the unwisdom of this assumption. It is not making an extreme statement to say that, as long as the family remains under active ...
— Broken Homes - A Study of Family Desertion and its Social Treatment • Joanna C. Colcord


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