Fall

More definitions of "fall":

• (verb): Slope downward.
  Example: "The hills around here fall towards the ocean"

• (verb): Lose an upright position suddenly.
  Synonyms: fall down

• (noun): A lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity.
  Example: "A fall from virtue"

• (verb): Fall from clouds.
  Synonyms: precipitate, come down

• (verb): Assume a disappointed or sad expression.
  Example: "Her face fell when she heard that she would be laid off"; "his crest fell"

• (verb): Touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly.
  Synonyms: shine, strike

• (verb): To be given by assignment or distribution.
  Example: "The most difficult task fell on the youngest member of the team"; "The onus fell on us"; "The pressure to succeed fell on the yougest student"

• (verb): Move in a specified direction.
  Example: "The line of men fall forward"

• (noun): When a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat.
  Synonyms: pin

• (verb): Lose office or power.
  Example: "The government fell overnight"; "The Qing Dynasty fell with Sun Yat-sen"

• (verb): Move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way.
  Synonyms: descend, go down, come down

• (verb): Come under, be classified or included.
  Example: "Fall into a category"
  Synonyms: come

• (noun): The lapse of mankind into sinfulness because of the sin of Adam and Eve.
  Example: "Women have been blamed ever since the Fall"

• (noun): A downward slope or bend.
  Synonyms: descent, declivity, decline, declination, declension, downslope

• (verb): To be given by right or inheritance.
  Example: "The estate fell to the oldest daughter"

• (noun): A free and rapid descent by the force of gravity.
  Synonyms: drop

• (noun): A sudden decline in strength or number or importance.
  Example: "The fall of the House of Hapsburg"
  Synonyms: downfall

• (verb): Fall or flow in a certain way.
  Synonyms: hang, flow

• (noun): The act of surrendering (under agreed conditions).
  Synonyms: capitulation, surrender

• (verb): Be inherited by.
  Synonyms: return, pass, devolve

• (verb): Go as if by falling.
  Example: "Grief fell from our hearts"

• (noun): A sudden drop from an upright position.
  Synonyms: spill, tumble

• (verb): Come into the possession of.
  Synonyms: accrue

• (noun): A movement downward.
  Example: "The rise and fall of the tides"

• (noun): A sudden sharp decrease in some quantity.
  Example: "When that became known the price of their stock went into free fall"
  Synonyms: drop, dip, free fall

• (verb): Be due.
  Example: "Payments fall on the 1st of the month"

• (noun): The season when the leaves fall from the trees.
  Example: "In the fall of 1973"
  Synonyms: autumn

• (verb): Yield to temptation or sin.
  Example: "Adam and Eve fell"

• (verb): Die, as in battle or in a hunt.
  Example: "Many soldiers fell at Verdun"; "Several deer have fallen to the same gun"; "The shooting victim fell dead"

• (verb): Occur at a specified time or place.
  Example: "Christmas falls on a Monday this year"; "The accent falls on the first syllable"

• (verb): Be captured.
  Example: "The cities fell to the enemy"

• (verb): Pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind.
  Example: "Fall into a trap"; "She fell ill"; "They fell out of favor"; "Fall in love"; "fall asleep"; "fall prey to an imposter"; "fall into a strange way of thinking"; "she fell to pieces after she lost her work"

• (verb): Come as if by falling.
  Synonyms: descend, settle

• (noun): The time of day immediately following sunset.
  Example: "They finished before the fall of night"
  Synonyms: twilight, dusk, gloaming, nightfall, evenfall, crepuscule, crepuscle

• (verb): Descend in free fall under the influence of gravity.
  Example: "The branch fell from the tree"; "The unfortunate hiker fell into a crevasse"

• (verb): Be cast down.
  Example: "His eyes fell"

• (verb): Drop oneself to a lower or less erect position.
  Example: "She fell back in her chair"; "He fell to his knees"

• (verb): Be born, used chiefly of lambs.
  Example: "The lambs fell in the afternoon"

• (verb): Decrease in size, extent, or range.
  Example: "Her weight fall to under a hundred pounds"
  Synonyms: decrease, diminish, lessen

• (verb): Fall to somebody by assignment or lot.
  Synonyms: light

• (verb): Lose one's chastity.
  Example: "A fallen woman"

• (verb): Come out; issue.
  Example: "Silly phrases fell from her mouth"

• (verb): Begin vigorously.
  Example: "The prisoners fell to work right away"

Famous quotes containing the word fall:

“In certain savage tribes in New Guinea, they put the old people up in the trees and shake them once a year in the spring; if they don’t fall out they let them live another year.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)

“Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters’ table.”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 15:27.

A woman to Jesus.

“And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship? Then all things go to decay. Genius leaves the temple to haunt the senate or the market.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)