fall
What is the Definition of fall?
Noun:
- the season when the leaves fall from the trees
- a sudden drop from an upright position
- the lapse of mankind into sinfulness because of the sin of Adam and Eve
- a downward slope or bend
- a lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity
- a sudden decline in strength or number or importance
- a movement downward
- the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions)
- the time of day immediately following sunset
- when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat
- a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity
- a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
Verb:
- descend in free fall under the influence of gravity
- move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
- pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind
- come under, be classified or included
- fall from clouds
- suffer defeat, failure, or ruin
- die, as in battle or in a hunt
- touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly
- be captured
- occur at a specified time or place
- decrease in size, extent, or range
- yield to temptation or sin
- lose office or power
- to be given by assignment or distribution
- move in a specified direction
- be due
- lose one's chastity
- to be given by right or inheritance
- come into the possession of
- fall to somebody by assignment or lot
- be inherited by
- slope downward
- lose an upright position suddenly
- drop oneself to a lower or less erect position
- fall or flow in a certain way
- assume a disappointed or sad expression
- be cast down
- come out; issue
- be born, used chiefly of lambs
- begin vigorously
- go as if by falling
- come as if by falling
How can I use fall in a sentence?
I know all about you, of course — I got a few extra books, for background reading, and you are in Modern Magical History and The Rise and Fall of the Dark Arts and Great Wizarding Events of the Twentieth Century.
He was careful to walk a little way apart from the Dursleys so that Dudley and Piers, who were starting to get bored with the animals by lunchtime, would not fall back on their favorite hobby of hitting him.
The Potters smiled and waved at Harry and he stared hungrily back at them, his hands pressed flat against the glass as though he was hoping to fall right through it and reach them.
He would just gotten very angry with the Weasleys, who kept dive-bombing each other and pretending to fall off their brooms.
He pulled it out with difficulty, because it was very heavy, and, balancing it on his knee, let it fall open.
Other meanings of fall (synonyms, cognates).
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fall back |
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fall flat |
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fall ill |
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fall out |
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fall short |
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fall to |
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fallacious |
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fallacy |
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fallback |
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fallen |
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fallibility |
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fallible |
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falloff |
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fallout |
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fallow |
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