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More definitions of "fall":

(verb): Be cast down.
Example: "His eyes fell"

(verb): Decrease in size, extent, or range.
Example: "Her weight fall to under a hundred pounds"
Synonyms: decrease, diminish, lessen

(verb): Fall from clouds.
Synonyms: precipitate, come down

(verb): Lose an upright position suddenly.
Synonyms: fall down

(noun): A lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity.
Example: "A fall from virtue"

(noun): A free and rapid descent by the force of gravity.
Synonyms: drop

(verb): Move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way.
Synonyms: descend, go down, come down

(verb): Assume a disappointed or sad expression.
Example: "Her face fell when she heard that she would be laid off"; "his crest fell"

(noun): The time of day immediately following sunset.
Example: "They finished before the fall of night"
Synonyms: twilight, dusk, gloaming, nightfall, evenfall, crepuscule, crepuscle

(verb): Pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind.
Example: "Fall into a trap"; "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"

(verb): Be due.
Example: "Payments fall on the 1st of the month"

(verb): Come into the possession of.
Synonyms: accrue

(verb): Come as if by falling.
Synonyms: descend, settle

(noun): The season when the leaves fall from the trees.
Example: "In the fall of 1973"
Synonyms: autumn

(noun): A sudden decline in strength or number or importance.
Example: "The fall of the House of Hapsburg"
Synonyms: downfall

(verb): Drop oneself to a lower or less erect position.
Example: "She fell back in her chair"; "He fell to his knees"

(verb): Come out; issue.
Example: "Silly phrases fell from her mouth"

(verb): Fall to somebody by assignment or lot.
Synonyms: light

(verb): Die, as in battle or in a hunt.
Example: "Many soldiers fell at Verdun"; "Several deer have fallen to the same gun"; "The shooting victim fell dead"

(verb): Fall or flow in a certain way.
Synonyms: hang, flow

(verb): Occur at a specified time or place.
Example: "Christmas falls on a Monday this year"; "The accent falls on the first syllable"

(verb): Begin vigorously.
Example: "The prisoners fell to work right away"

(noun): The act of surrendering (under agreed conditions).
Synonyms: capitulation, surrender

(verb): To be given by assignment or distribution.
Example: "The most difficult task fell on the youngest member of the team"; "The onus fell on us"; "The pressure to succeed fell on the yougest student"

(verb): Yield to temptation or sin.
Example: "Adam and Eve fell"

(verb): Slope downward.
Example: "The hills around here fall towards the ocean"

(verb): Be inherited by.
Synonyms: return, pass, devolve

(verb): Touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly.
Synonyms: shine, strike

(noun): A sudden drop from an upright position.
Synonyms: spill, tumble

(verb): Suffer defeat, failure, or ruin.
Example: "We must stand or fall"; "fall by the wayside"

(verb): Go as if by falling.
Example: "Grief fell from our hearts"

(verb): Descend in free fall under the influence of gravity.
Example: "The branch fell from the tree"; "The unfortunate hiker fell into a crevasse"

(verb): Lose office or power.
Example: "The government fell overnight"; "The Qing Dynasty fell with Sun Yat-sen"

(noun): The lapse of mankind into sinfulness because of the sin of Adam and Eve.
Example: "Women have been blamed ever since the Fall"

(noun): A downward slope or bend.
Synonyms: descent, declivity, decline, declination, declension, downslope

(verb): Lose one's chastity.
Example: "A fallen woman"

(verb): To be given by right or inheritance.
Example: "The estate fell to the oldest daughter"

(verb): Be born, used chiefly of lambs.
Example: "The lambs fell in the afternoon"

(noun): A movement downward.
Example: "The rise and fall of the tides"

(noun): When a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat.
Synonyms: pin

(verb): Be captured.
Example: "The cities fell to the enemy"

(verb): Come under, be classified or included.
Example: "Fall into a category"
Synonyms: come

(noun): A sudden sharp decrease in some quantity.
Example: "When that became known the price of their stock went into free fall"
Synonyms: drop, dip, free fall

Famous quotes containing the word fall:

“I’ve always wondered why European politicians as a group seemed brighter than American politicians as a group. Maybe it’s because many American politicians have the race issue to fall back on. They become lazy, suspicious of innovative ideas, and as a result American institutions atrophy.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)

“I am astonished at the singular pertinacity and endurance of our lives. The miracle is, that what is is, when it is so difficult, if not impossible, for anything else to be; that we walk on in our particular paths so far, before we fall on death and fate, merely because we must walk in some path; that every man can get a living, and so few can do anything more. So much only can I accomplish ere health and strength are gone, and yet this suffices.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The greater part of our best years has been passed for our generation in these two great worldconvulsions. All will be changed after this war, which spends in one month more than nations earned before in years ... there is no more security in our time than in those of the Reformation or the fall of Rome.”
—Stefan Zweig (18811942)

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