fall
Verb
To move downwards.
#To move to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
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#*:There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
#To come down, to drop or descend.
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#*1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), (Bulldog Drummond) , Ch.1:
#*:Her eyes fell on the table, and she advanced into the room wiping her hands on her apron.
#To come to the ground deliberately, to prostrate oneself.
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#To be brought to the ground.
(lb) To be moved downwards.
#(lb) To let fall; to drop.
#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#*:For every tear he falls , a Trojan bleeds.
#(lb) To sink; to depress.
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# To fell; to cut down.
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(lb) To happen, to change negatively.
#(lb) To become.
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#To occur (on a certain day of the week, date, or similar); (said of an instance of a recurring event such as a holiday or date).
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#(lb) To collapse; to be overthrown or defeated.
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# To die, especially in battle or by disease.
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#(lb) To become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc.).
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#*Sir (c.1569-1626)
#*:The greatness of these Irish lords suddenly fell and vanished.
#*1835 , Sir , Sir (James Clark Ross), Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage …, Vol.1
, pp.284-5:
#*:Towards the following morning, the thermometer fell to 5°; and at daylight, there was not an atom of water to be seen in any direction.
#*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Old soldiers?
, passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.
#(lb) To become; to be affected by or befallen with a calamity; to change into the state described by words following; to become prostrated literally or figuratively .
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(lb) To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
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*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:If to her share some female errors fall , / Look on her face, and you'll forget them all.
To diminish; to lessen or lower.
* (John Locke) (1632-1705)
*:Upon lessening interest to four per cent, you fall the price of your native commodities.
To bring forth.
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:(Shakespeare)
To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; said of the young of certain animals.
:(Shakespeare)
To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin.
*(Bible)}, (w) iv.11:
*:Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.
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To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the face.
*(Bible), (w) iv.5:
*:Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell .
*(Joseph Addison) (1672–1719)
*:I have observed of late thy looks are fallen .
To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).
*(Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
*:The Romans fell on this model by chance.
*(Bible), (w) iii.18:
*:Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall .
*(Herbert Spenser) (1820-1903)
*:Primitive mendo not make laws, they fall into customs.
To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.
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*(Benjamin Jowett) (1817-1893) ((Thucydides))
*:They now no longer doubted, but fell to work heart and soul.
To be dropped or uttered carelessly.
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Quotations
* , Andrew Wi?e (publisher, 1598 — second quarto), Act V, Scene 3
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*: Ghoa?t [of Clarence]. / To morrow in the battaile thinke on me, / And fall thy edgele??e ?word, di?paire and die.
Synonyms
* (move to a lower position under the effect of gravity) drop, plummet, plunge
* (come down) come down, descend, drop
* (come to the ground deliberately) drop, lower oneself, prostrate oneself
* (be brought to the ground)
* : be beaten by, be defeated by, be overthrown by, be smitten by, be vanquished by,
* (die) die
* (be allotted to) be the responsibility of, be up to
* : dip, drop
* (become) become, get
* : cut down (of a tree), fell, knock down, knock over, strike down
Antonyms
* (come down) ascend, go up, rise
* (come to the ground deliberately) get up, pick oneself up, stand up
* : beat, defeat, overthrow, smite, vanquish
* : rise
Derived terms
* the apple does not fall far from the tree
* the
* the curtain falls
* fair fall
* fallable
* fall aboard
* fall aboard of
* fall about
* fall about someone's ears
* fall abreast of
* fall abroad of
* fall across
* fall adown
* fall afire
* fall afoul
* fall afoul of
* fall after
* fallage
* fall all over someone or oneself
* fall among
* fall apart
* fall asleep
* fall aslope
* fall astern
* fall asunder
* fall at
* fall at the crest
* fall at the first fence, fall at the first hurdle
* fall away
* fall back
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* fall back on, fall back upon
* fall behind, fall behindhand
* fall between the cracks
* fall between two stools
* fall by
* fall by the wayside
* fall calm
* fall dead
* fall down
* fall down on
* fall due
* fallen
* faller
* fall flat
* fall flat on one's face
* fall for
* fall forth
* fall foul
* fall foul of, fall foul with
* fall from
* fall from grace
* fall heir
* fall home
* fall ill
* fall in
* fall in age
* fall in flesh
* fall in for
* falling
* fall in line
* fall in love
* fall in mold, fall in mould
* fall in one's road
* fall in one's way
* fall in somebody's heart, fall in someone's heart
* fall in somebody's mind, fall in someone's mind
* fall into one's hands
* fall into one's lap
* fall in two
* fall in upon
* fall in with
* fall into
* fall into line
* fall into place
* fall into somebody's heart, fall into someone's heart
* fall into somebody's mind, fall into someone's mind
* fall of
* fall off
* fall off the turnip truck
* fall on
* fall on board
* fall on deaf ears
* fall one's crest
* fall on one's face
* fall on one's feet
* fall on shore
* fall on sleep
* fall on one's knees
* fall on one's sword
* fall on the crest
* fall open
* fall out
* fall out in
* fall out of
* fall out upon
* fall out with
* fall over
* fall over oneself
* fall over one's feet
* fall pregnant
* fall prey to
* fall short
* fall short of
* fall short to
* fall sick
* fall silent
* fallstreaks, fallstreifen
* fall through
* fall through the cracks
* fall to
* fall to be
* fall together
* fall to loggerheads
* fall to mold, fall to mould
* fall to oneself
* fall to one's knees
* fall to one's lot
* fall to one's share
* fall to pieces
* fall to powder
* fall to the ground
* fall under
* fall unto
* fall upon
* fall victim to
* fall what can fall, fall what will fall
* fall with
* fall within
* foul fall
* let fall
* let the chips fall where they may
* may fall, may-fall
* misfall
* overfall
* the rain in Spain falls mainly in the plain
* refall
* tendency of the rate of profit to fall
* to-fall
* under-fall
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Related terms
* atfall
* befall
* fell (verb, as in "to fell a tree", "to fell an opponent")
* i-falle
* i-fallen
* of-fall
* to-fall
* y-falle
* yfalle, yfallen
Noun
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en noun)
The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.
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*:“I'm through with all pawn-games,” I laughed. “Come, let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”.
A loss of greatness or status.
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(label) A crucial event or circumstance.
# The action of a batsman being out.
# (label) A defect in the ice which causes stones thrown into an area to drift in a given direction.
# (label) An instance of a wrestler being pinned to the mat.
Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.
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The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting.
See'' falls'''
An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.
Synonyms
* (act of moving to a lower position) descent, drop
* (reduction) decrease, dip, drop, lowering, reduction
* (season) autumn
* (loss of greatness or status) downfall
* rap
Antonyms
* (act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity) ascent, rise
* (reduction) increase, rise
* (loss of greatness or status) ascent, rise
Derived terms
* accidental fall
* angle of fall
* ash fall, ashfall
* backfall
* best-of-three-falls match
* block and fall
* break a fall
* break-fall, breakfall
* break one's fall
* byfall
* catfall
* center of falls, centre of falls
* chainfall
* crossfall
* darkfall
* dead fall, dead-fall, deadfall
* dew-fall, dewfall
* dog-fall, dogfall
* downfall
* dustfall
* earthfall
* even-fall, evenfall
* fall-and-rise phenomenon
* fall armyworm
* fall and tackle
* fall block, fall-block
* fall-blooming
* fall-board, fallboard
* fall-breaker
* fall-bridge
* fall cankerworm
* (Fall Classic)
* fall-cloud
* fall colors
* fall dandelion
* fall-door
* fall duck
* fall equinox
* fall factor
* fall-fish, fallfish
* fall foliage
* fall-forward
* fall from grace
* fall front
* fall-front desk
* fall guy, fall-guy
* fall herring
* fall-iron door
* fall-leaf
* fall-less
* fall line, fall-line
* fall money
* The (Fall of Baghdad)
* The (Fall of Constantinople)
* fall of day
* the (w)
* the Fall of Man, the fall of man
* The (Fall of Saigon)
* fall of the leaf
* fall of the perch
* the (w), the (Fall of Rome)
* fall of wicket
* fall overturn
* fall-pipe
* fall-pippin
* fall rate
* fall-rise
* fall-rope
* fall-run fish
* falls
* (Falls-to-Falls Corridor)
* fall time
* fall-trap
* fall turnover
* fall-way
* fall webworm
* fall wind, fall-wind
* fall-window
* fall-wood
* fally
* fall zone
* fish fall
* foot-fall, footfall
* free fall
* give a fall
* ice fall, ice-fall
* infall
* jaw-fall, jawfall
* landfall
* law-fall
* leaf-fall
* litterfall
* mid-fall, midfall
* misfall
* mouse-fall
* near-fall
* nightfall
* offal
* onfall
* outfall
* overfall
* parachute landing fall
* pinfall
* pitfall
* planetfall
* prat-fall, pratfall, pratt-fall
* pressure-fall center, pressure-fall centre
* pride comes before a fall, pride goes before a fall, pride goeth before a fall
* proudfall
* rainfall
* ride for a fall
* rises and falls
* rock-fall, rockfall
* roof fall
* root-fall
* shake a fall
* shout-and-fall
* slip and fall
* smokefall
* snow-fall, snowfall
* speck falls
* stiff board fall
* sunfall
* Swedish fall
* tackle fall
* take the fall
* technical fall
* terminal fall velocity
* threadfall
* throughfall
* toe drain and outfall
* trad fall
* trap-fall, trapfall
* try a fall
* two-out-of-three-falls match
* underfall
* waterfall
* whale fall
* windfall
* withfall
* wrestle a fall
* zipper fall
Related terms
* bergfall
* brothfall
* fussefall
See also
* falls
* [http://hea-www.harvard.edu/ECT/Words/fall]
