fall

Definitions of fall in various dictionaries:

noun - the season when the leaves fall from the trees

noun - a sudden drop from an upright position

noun - the lapse of mankind into sinfulness because of the sin of Adam and Eve

noun - a downward slope or bend

noun - a lapse into sin

noun - a sudden decline in strength or number or importance

noun - a movement downward

noun - the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions)

noun - the time of day immediately following sunset

noun - when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat

noun - a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity

noun - a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity

verb - descend in free fall under the influence of gravity

verb - move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way

verb - pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind

verb - come under, be classified or included

verb - fall from clouds

verb - suffer defeat, failure, or ruin

verb - die, as in battle or in a hunt

verb - touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly

verb - be captured

verb - occur at a specified time or place

verb - decrease in size, extent, or range

verb - yield to temptation or sin

verb - lose office or power

verb - to be given by assignment or distribution

verb - move in a specified direction

verb - be due

verb - lose one's chastity

verb - to be given by right or inheritance

verb - come into the possession of

verb - fall to somebody by assignment or lot

verb - be inherited by

verb - slope downward

verb - lose an upright position suddenly

verb - drop oneself to a lower or less erect position

verb - fall or flow in a certain way

verb - assume a disappointed or sad expression

verb - be cast down

verb - come out

verb - be born, used chiefly of lambs

verb - begin vigorously

verb - go as if by falling

verb - come as if by falling

To drop or come down freely under the influence of gravity.

To drop oneself to a lower or less erect position: I fell back in my chair.

To lose an upright or erect position suddenly.

To drop wounded or dead, especially in battle.

To go or come as if by falling: All grief fell from our hearts.

To come to rest; settle: The light fell on my book.

To hang down: The child’s hair fell in ringlets.

To be cast down: Her eyes fell.

To assume an expression of consternation or disappointment: His face fell when he heard the report.

To undergo conquest or capture, especially as the result of an armed attack: The city fell after a long siege.

To experience defeat or ruin: After 300 years the dynasty fell.

To lose office: The disgraced prime minister fell from power.

To slope downward: The rolling hills fall gently toward the coast.

To lessen in amount or degree: The air pressure is falling.

To decline in financial value: Last year, stock prices fell sharply.

To lose weight.

To diminish in pitch or volume: My friend’s voice fell to a whisper.

To give in to temptation; sin.

To lose one’s chastity.

To pass into a particular state, condition, or situation: fell silent; fall in love.

To occur at a specified time: New Year’s Day falls on a Tuesday this year.

To occur at a specified place: The stress falls on the last syllable.

To come, as by chance.

To be given by assignment or distribution: The greatest task fell to me.

To be given by right or inheritance.

To be included within the range or scope of something: The specimens fall into three categories.

To come into contact; strike: My gaze fell on a small book in the corner.

To come out; issue: Insincere compliments fell from their lips.

To begin vigorously: fell to work immediately.

To cut down (a tree); fell.

The act or an instance of falling.

A sudden drop from a relatively erect to a less erect position.

Something that has fallen: a fall of hail.

An amount that has fallen: a fall of two inches of rain.

The distance that something falls: The victim suffered a fall of three stories to the ground.

A waterfall.

A downward movement or slope.

A veil hung from a woman’s hat and down her back.

An ornamental cascade of lace or trimming attached to a dress, usually at the collar.

A woman’s hairpiece with long, free-hanging hair.

An overthrow; a collapse: the fall of a government.

Armed capture of a place under siege: the fall of Dien Bien Phu.

A reduction in value, amount, or degree.

A marked, often sudden, decline in status, rank, or importance: “turned them in, set them up for prosecution; positioned them, as it were, for the fall” (Joan Didion).

A moral lapse.

A loss of chastity.

The loss of innocence and grace resulting from Adam’s eating the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden.

Sports.

The act of throwing or forcing a wrestling opponent down on his or her back.

Any of various wrestling maneuvers so used.

Nautical.

A break or rise in the level of a deck.

The end of a cable, rope, or chain that is pulled by the power source in hoisting.

The birth of an animal, especially a lamb.

All the animals born at one birth; a litter.

A family of woodcock in flight.

The outer series of perianth in the irises and related plants.

To withdraw one’s friendship and support.

To become gradually diminished in size.

To drift off an established course.

To give ground; retreat.

To recede: The waves fell back.

To fail to keep up a pace; lag behind.

To be financially in arrears.

To feel love for.

To be deceived or swindled by: fell for the con artist’s scheme and lost $200,000.

To take one’s place in a military formation.

To sink inward; cave in: The roof of the old barn fell in.

To become less; decrease: Stock prices have fallen off.

To change course to leeward.

To attack suddenly and viciously: Snipers and irregulars fell on the hapless patrol.

To meet with; encounter: a stockbroker who fell on hard times.

To leave a barracks, for example, in order to take one’s place in a military formation.

To leave a military formation.

To quarrel: The siblings fell out over their inheritance.

To happen; occur.

To leave a barracks, for example, in order to take one’s place in a military formation.

To leave a military formation.

To rely on: fall back on old friends in time of need.

To resort to: I had to fall back on my savings when I was unemployed.

To fail miserably when attempting to achieve a result.

To have no effect: The jokes fell flat.

To collide.

To clash: fell foul of the law.

To agree with or be in harmony with: Their views fall in with ours.

To associate or begin to associate with: fell in with the wrong crowd.

To fail to attain a specified amount, level, or degree: an athlete whose skill fell far short of expectations.

To prove inadequate: Our supplies of sugar and rice fell short.

verb - to descend under the force of gravity

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