- verbfall (verb) · falls (third person present) · fell (past tense) · falling (present participle) · fallen (past participle)
- move downward, typically rapidly and freely without control, from a higher to a lower level:"five inches of snow fell through the night" · "bombs could be seen falling from the planes"
- hang down:"hair that was allowed to fall to the shoulders"
- (of land) slope downward; drop away:"the field fell gently downhill"
- (of someone's eyes or glance) be directed downward:"Albert's eyes fell, and he blushed"
- (of someone's face) show dismay or disappointment by appearing to sag or droop:"her face fell as she thought about her life with George"
- (of a person) lose one's balance and collapse:"he stumbled, tripped, and fell"
- throw oneself down, typically in order to worship or implore someone:"they fell on their knees, rendering thanks to God"
- (of a tree, building, or other structure) collapse to the ground.
- decrease in number, amount, intensity, or quality:"imports fell by 12 percent" · "we're worried that standards are falling" · "temperatures are going to fall to around four degrees"
- (of a measuring instrument) show a lower reading:"the barometer had fallen a further ten points"
- be captured or defeated:"the besieged city fell after three months" · "their mountain strongholds fell to enemy attack"
- die in battle:"an English leader who had fallen at the hands of the Danes"
- (of a government or leader) lose office or be overthrown:"six months later the government fell as a result of mass strikes"
- archaiccommit sin; yield to temptation:"it is their husbands' fault if wives do fall"
- pass into a specified state, situation, or position:"she fell pregnant"
- occur or take place:"when night fell we managed to crawl back to our lines" · "Mother's birthday fell on Flag Day"
- be classified or ordered in the way specified:"canals fall within the Minister's brief" · "all that falls under the general heading of corruption"
nounfall (noun) · falls (plural noun) · Fall of Man (noun) · the Fall (noun) · Fall (noun)- an act of falling or collapsing; a sudden uncontrollable descent:"his mother had a fall, hurting her leg as she alighted from a train"
- a controlled act of falling, especially as a stunt or in martial arts:"rolling properly into a fall minimizes hurt"
- wrestlinga move which pins the opponent's shoulders on the ground for a count of three.
- a state of hanging or drooping downward:"the fall of her hair"
- a downward difference in height between parts of a surface:"at the corner of the massif this fall is interrupted by other heights of considerable stature"
- a sudden onset or arrival as if by dropping:"the fall of darkness"
- a thing which falls or has fallen:"in October came the first thin fall of snow" · "a rock fall"
- (falls)a waterfall or cascade:"we camped upriver from the falls" · "Niagara Falls"
- literarya downward turn in a melody:"that strain again, it had a dying fall"
- (falls)the parts or petals of a flower that bend downward, especially the outer perianth segments of an iris.
- a decrease in size, number, rate, or level; a decline:"a big fall in unemployment"
- a defeat or downfall:"the fall of the Roman Empire"
- a person's moral descent, typically through succumbing to temptation.
- (the Fallthe Fall of Man)the lapse of humankind into a state of sin, ascribed in traditional Jewish and Christian theology to the disobedience of Adam and Eve as described in Genesis.
- NORTH AMERICAN ENGLISHautumn:"that fall Roosevelt was elected to his first term"
OriginOld English fallan, feallan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vallen and German fallen; the noun is partly from the verb, partly from Old Norse fall ‘downfall, sin’.Similar and Opposite Wordsverb- move downward, typically rapidly and freely without control, from a higher to a lower level:
- (of a person) lose one's balance and collapse:
- decrease in number, amount, intensity, or quality:
- be captured or defeated:
- pass into a specified state, situation, or position:
noun- an act of falling or collapsing; a sudden uncontrollable descent:
- a decrease in size, number, rate, or level; a decline:
- a defeat or downfall:
- the lapse of humankind into a state of sin, ascribed in traditional Jewish and Christian theology to the disobedience of Adam and Eve as described in Genesis.
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