Sekirov Dictionary

fall

UK /fɔːl/US /fɒl/

verb 28
noun 19
exclamation 1
forms 10
phrases 20

verb28

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to move down through the air to a lower place
- Thrown from a cliff, the stone fell 100 feet before hitting the ground.
- I fell unconscious on the floor.
To be moved downwards.
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To come down, to drop or descend.
- The rain fell at dawn.
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To come as if by dropping down.
- The horse wrangler, a tall, bronzed-face man, waved to the wagon driver. The driver laughed. […] The canvas cover rolled up suddenly and a terrible noise fell over the desert. — 1981
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To come to the ground deliberately, to prostrate oneself.
- He fell to the floor and begged for mercy.
To be brought to the ground.
To move downwards.
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To become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc.).
- The candidate's poll ratings fell abruptly after the banking scandal.
To change, often negatively.
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To become (chiefly used with negative states).
- She has fallen ill.
- The children fell asleep in the back of the car.
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To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin.
- Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. — 1611
To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.
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To occur (on a certain day of the week, date, or similar); to happen.
- Thanksgiving always falls on a Thursday.
- Last year, Commencement fell on June 3.
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To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).
- Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall. — 1611
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To collapse; to be overthrown or defeated.
- Rome fell to the Goths in 410 AD.
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To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
- And so it falls to me to make this important decision.
- The estate fell to his brother.
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(formal, euphemistic) To die, especially in battle or by disease.
- This is a monument to all those who fell in the First World War.
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To hang down (under the influence of gravity).
- An Empire-style dress has a high waistline – directly under the bust – from which the dress falls all the way to a hem as low as the floor.
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To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the face.
- Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. — 1611
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To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.
- After arguing, they fell to blows.
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To be dropped or uttered carelessly.
- An unguarded expression fell from his lips.
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(slang) To visit; to go to a place.
- We'll fall over to the club tonight.
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(no longer used) To let fall; to drop.
- For every tear he falls, a Trojan bleeds. — 1594
(no longer used) To sink; to depress.
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(no longer used) To diminish; to lessen or lower.
- Upon lessening interest to four per cent, you fall the price of your native commodities. — 1691
(dialect, no longer used) To fell; to cut down.
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(no longer used) To bring forth.
- to fall lambs
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(no longer used) To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; said of the young of certain animals.
- As for Calves newly fallen, you must leave them with good Litter of fresh Straw until such qime as the Cows have licked and cleansed them, — 1672

noun19

The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
(US, Canada) The time of the year when the leaves typically fall from the trees; autumn; the season of the year between the autumnal equinox and the winter solstice.
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A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.
- “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”. — 1908
A loss of greatness or status.
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A waterfall.
- The celebrated fall of the Liffey, near Ballymore Eustace, is named Pool-a-Phooka, or The Pooka's Hole. — 1850
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That which falls or cascades.
- A fall of hair tumbled down one side of her body like a veil. — 2010
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(US, informal) Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.
- He set up his rival to take the fall.
A crucial event or circumstance.
The action of a batsman being out.
An instance of a wrestler being pinned to the mat.
The height of that which falls or cascades.
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A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover hair loss.
- Female patients with localized hair loss on the top of scalp could select a fall or a demiwig to camouflage crown and anterior scalp loss. — 2004
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The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural).
- Have the goodness to secure the falls of the mizzen halyards.
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A group of woodcock, especially appearing suddenly, as if overnight.
- there had been a great fall of woodcock in the night — 1876
The lid, on a piano, that covers the keyboard.
A defect in the ice which causes stones thrown into an area to drift in a given direction.
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A short, flexible piece of leather forming part of a bullwhip, placed between the thong and the cracker.
- Brooks fitted a new fall to his whip. — 1945
The chasing of a hunted whale.
An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.

exclamation1

The cry given when a whale is sighted, or harpooned.

forms

falled · fell · fell into · fellest · fallen · falne · falling · falleth · falls · fallest

Phrases with fall

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