Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To drop or come down freely under the influence of gravity.
- intransitive verb To drop oneself to a lower or less erect position.
- intransitive verb To lose an upright or erect position suddenly.
- intransitive verb To drop wounded or dead, especially in battle.
- intransitive verb To hang down.
- intransitive verb To be cast down.
- intransitive verb To be directed toward or come into contact; rest.
- intransitive verb To come into existence or occur as if by falling.
- intransitive verb To occur at a specified time or place.
- intransitive verb To be removed as if by falling.
- intransitive verb To come forth as if by falling; issue.
- intransitive verb To assume an expression of consternation or disappointment.
- intransitive verb To undergo conquest or capture, especially as the result of an armed attack.
- intransitive verb To experience defeat or ruin.
- intransitive verb To lose office.
- intransitive verb To move downward to a lower level; be reduced.
- intransitive verb To slope downward.
- intransitive verb To become less in amount or degree.
- intransitive verb To diminish in pitch or volume.
- intransitive verb To decline in financial value.
- intransitive verb To give into temptation; suffer a moral lapse.
- intransitive verb Theology To lose primordial innocence and happiness. Used of humanity as a result of the Fall.
- intransitive verb To pass into a particular state, condition, or situation.
- intransitive verb To come, as by chance.
- intransitive verb To be given by assignment or distribution.
- intransitive verb To be given by right or inheritance.
- intransitive verb To be included within the range or scope of something.
- intransitive verb To apply oneself.
- intransitive verb To be born. Used chiefly of lambs.
- intransitive verb To cut down (a tree); fell.
- noun The act or an instance of falling.
- noun A sudden drop from a relatively erect to a less erect position.
- noun Something that has fallen.
- noun An amount that has fallen.
- noun The distance that something falls.
- noun Autumn.
- noun A waterfall.
- noun A downward movement or slope.
- noun Any of several pendent articles of dress, especially.
- noun A veil hung from a woman's hat and down her back.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I ever fall in love (for I'll _fall_ in love, else not go in at all) I shall leave off loving mother best of anybody in the world?
The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss George L. Prentiss 1859
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Along the cliff _to fall and pause and fall_ did seem.
The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson Alfred Tennyson Tennyson 1850
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The _Cohoz fall_ is about three miles from the mouth of this river, and at a place where its width is about three hundred yards: a ledge of rocks extends quite across the stream, and from the top of these the water falls about fifty feet perpendicular: the line of the fall, from one side of the river to the other, is nearly straight.
Travels in North America, From Modern Writers With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the Globe William Bingley 1798
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LEAD: Tokyo stocks fall on sluggish high-tech shares, Wall Street fall+
WN.com - Articles related to Dollar in lower 89 yen in Tokyo, euro seen pressured by financial woes+ 2010
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LEAD: Tokyo stocks fall on sluggish high-tech shares, Wall Street fall+
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LEAD: Tokyo stocks fall on sluggish high-tech shares, Wall Street fall+
WN.com - Articles related to Japan, China shares slip in quiet trade 2010
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LEAD: Tokyo stocks fall on sluggish high-tech shares, Wall Street fall+
WN.com - Articles related to Dollar in lower 89 yen in Tokyo, euro seen pressured by financial woes+ 2010
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LEAD: Tokyo stocks fall on sluggish high-tech shares, Wall Street fall+
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LEAD: Tokyo stocks fall on sluggish high-tech shares, Wall Street fall+
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oroboros commented on the word fall
"Fall leaves after leaves fall."
July 8, 2007
ruzuzu commented on the word fall
To pass into a new state or condition;
enter upon a different state of
being, action, or feeling;
come to be, or to be engaged
or fixed: as,
to fall heir to an estate;
to fall a victim;
to fall asleep,
ill, in love, etc.;
to fall calm, as the wind;
to fall into a snare,
into a rage, etc.;
the troops fell into line.
--CD&C
May 24, 2012
Logophile77 commented on the word fall
A sudden drop from a relatively erect to a less erect position.
Heehee.
January 11, 2018