Fall

Verb



 * 1)  To move to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
 * Thrown from a cliff, the stone fell 100 feet before hitting the ground.
 * 1)  To come down, to drop or descend.
 * The rain fell at dawn.
 * 1)  To come to the ground deliberately, to prostrate oneself.
 * He fell to the floor and begged for mercy.
 * 1)  To be brought to the ground.
 * 2)  To collapse; to be overthrown or defeated.
 * Rome fell to the Goths in 410 AD.
 * 1)  To die, especially in battle.
 * This is a monument to all those who fell in the First World War.
 * 1)  To be allotted to; to arrive through chance or fate.
 * And so it falls to me to make this important decision.
 * 1)  To become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc).
 * The candidate's poll ratings fell abruptly after the banking scandal.
 * 1)  To become; to be affected by or befallen with a calamity; to change into the state described by words following; to become prostrated literally or figuratively.
 * Our senator fell into disrepute because of the banking scandal.
 * 1)  To become.
 * She has fallen ill.
 * 1)   To cause something to descend to the ground (to drop it); especially to cause a tree to descend to the ground by cutting it down (felling it).
 * 2) * c. 1591 William Shake-ſpeare, The Tragedie of King Richard the third, Andrew Wiſe (publisher, 1598 — second quarto), Act V, Scene 3:
 * Ghoaſt [of Clarence]. / To morrow in the battaile thinke on me, / And fall thy edgeleſſe ſword, diſpaire and die.

Noun

 * 1) The act of moving in a fluid or vacuum under the effect of gravity to a lower position.
 * 2) A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.
 * 3)  autumn.
 * 4) A loss of greatness or status.
 * the fall of Rome
 * 1)  The action of a batsman being out.
 * 2)  A defect in the ice which causes stones thrown into an area to drift in a given direction
 * 3)  Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.
 * He set up his rival to take the fall.
 * 1) The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting.
 * 2) See falls

Adjectives for Fall
tremendous; jade-green; weary; graceful; repeated (pi); preceding; virtuous; sloping; gleaming; deadliest; intertangled; bubbly; clattering; answering; melodious; dying; instantaneous; uncropt; thundering.

Adverbs for Fall
ultimately; noiselessly; subsequently; perpendicularly; insensibly; involuntarily; supinely; disdainfully; melodiously; resistlessly; unceasingly; inertly; precisely; incoherently; unwittingly; leisurely; dreamily; violently; intermittently; disconcertingly; fitfully; ponderously; thunderingly.

Synonyms for Fall

 * verb
 * 1)  drop, plummet, plunge
 * 2)  come down, descend, drop
 * 3)  drop, lower oneself, prostrate oneself
 * : be beaten by, be defeated by, be overthrown by, be smitten by, be vanquished by,
 * 1)  die
 * 2)  be the responsibility of, be up to
 * : dip, drop
 * 1)  become, get
 * : cut down, fell, knock down, knock over, strike down
 * 1) sink, tumble, settle, totter, topple, droop, decline, lessen, abate, ebb, diminish, weaken
 * 1) sink, tumble, settle, totter, topple, droop, decline, lessen, abate, ebb, diminish, weaken


 * noun
 * 1)  descent, drop
 * 2)  decrease, dip, drop, lowering, reduction
 * 3)  autumn
 * 4)  downfall
 * 5)  rap

Antonyms for Fall

 * verb
 * 1)  ascend, go up, rise
 * 2)  get up, pick oneself up, stand up
 * : beat, defeat, overthrow, smite, vanquish
 * : rise
 * 1) climb, surmount, scale, tower, soar, improve, strengthen, advance, reach, attain.


 * noun
 * 1)  ascent, rise
 * 2)  increase, rise
 * 3)  ascent, rise

Derived terms

 * accidental fall
 * angle of fall
 * ash fall, ashfall
 * backfall
 * best-of-three-falls match
 * block and fall
 * break a fall
 * break-fall, breakfall
 * break one's fall
 * byfall
 * catfall
 * center of falls, centre of falls
 * chainfall
 * crossfall
 * darkfall
 * dead fall, dead-fall, deadfall
 * dew-fall, dewfall
 * dog-fall, dogfall
 * downfall
 * dustfall
 * earthfall
 * even-fall, evenfall
 * fall-and-rise phenomenon
 * fall armyworm
 * fall and tackle
 * fall block, fall-block
 * fall-blooming
 * fall-board, fallboard
 * fall-breaker
 * fall-bridge
 * fall cankerworm
 * Fall Classic
 * fall-cloud
 * fall colors
 * fall dandelion
 * fall-door


 * fall duck
 * fall equinox
 * fall factor
 * fall-fish, fallfish
 * fall foliage
 * fall-forward
 * fall from grace
 * fall front
 * fall-front desk
 * fall guy, fall-guy
 * fall herring


 * fall-iron door
 * fall-leaf
 * fall-less
 * fall line, fall-line
 * fall money
 * The Fall of Baghdad
 * The Fall of Constantinople
 * fall of day


 * the Fall of France
 * the Fall of Man, the fall of man
 * The Fall of Saigon
 * fall of the leaf
 * fall of the perch
 * the Fall of the Roman Empire, the Fall of Rome
 * fall of wicket


 * fall overturn
 * fall-pipe
 * fall-pippin
 * fall rate
 * fall-rise
 * fall-rope
 * fall-run fish
 * falls
 * Falls-to-Falls Corridor
 * fall time


 * fall-trap
 * fall turnover
 * fall-way
 * fall webworm
 * fall wind, fall-wind
 * fall-window
 * fall-wood
 * fally
 * fall zone
 * fish fall
 * foot-fall, footfall
 * free fall
 * give a fall
 * ice fall, ice-fall
 * infall
 * jaw-fall, jawfall
 * landfall
 * law-fall
 * leaf-fall
 * litterfall


 * mid-fall, midfall
 * misfall
 * mouse-fall
 * near-fall
 * nightfall
 * offal
 * onfall
 * outfall
 * overfall
 * parachute landing fall
 * pinfall
 * pitfall
 * planetfall
 * prat-fall, pratfall, pratt-fall
 * pressure-fall center, pressure-fall centre


 * pride comes before a fall, pride goes before a fall, pride goeth before a fall
 * proudfall
 * rainfall
 * ride for a fall
 * rises and falls
 * rock-fall, rockfall
 * roof fall
 * root-fall
 * shake a fall


 * shout-and-fall
 * slip and fall
 * smokefall
 * snow-fall, snowfall
 * speck falls
 * stiff board fall
 * sunfall
 * Swedish fall
 * tackle fall
 * take the fall
 * technical fall
 * terminal fall velocity
 * threadfall
 * throughfall
 * toe drain and outfall
 * trad fall
 * trap-fall, trapfall
 * try a fall
 * two-out-of-three-falls match
 * underfall
 * waterfall
 * whale fall
 * windfall
 * withfall
 * wrestle a fall
 * zipper fall

Related terms

 * bergfall
 * brothfall
 * fussefall

Derived terms

 * the apple does not fall far from the tree
 * the bigger they are, the harder they fall, the bigger they come, the harder they fall
 * the curtain falls
 * fair fall
 * fallable
 * fall aboard
 * fall aboard of
 * fall about
 * fall about someone's ears
 * fall abreast of
 * fall abroad of
 * fall across
 * fall adown
 * fall afire
 * fall afoul
 * fall afoul of
 * fall after
 * fallage
 * fall all over someone or oneself
 * fall among
 * fall apart
 * fall asleep
 * fall aslope
 * fall astern
 * fall asunder
 * fall at
 * fall at the crest
 * fall at the first fence, fall at the first hurdle
 * fall away
 * fall back
 * fall back, fall edge
 * fall back on, fall back upon
 * fall behind, fall behindhand
 * fall between the cracks


 * fall between two stools
 * fall by
 * fall by the wayside
 * fall calm
 * fall dead
 * fall down
 * fall down on
 * fall due
 * fallen
 * faller
 * fall flat
 * fall flat on one's face
 * fall for
 * fall forth
 * fall foul
 * fall foul of, fall foul with
 * fall from
 * fall from grace
 * fall heir
 * fall home
 * fall ill
 * fall in
 * fall in age
 * fall in flesh
 * fall in for
 * falling
 * fall in line
 * fall in love
 * fall in mold, fall in mould
 * fall in one's road
 * fall in one's way
 * fall in somebody's heart, fall in someone's heart
 * fall in somebody's mind, fall in someone's mind
 * fall into one's hands
 * fall in two
 * fall in upon


 * fall in with
 * fall into
 * fall into line
 * fall into place
 * fall into somebody's heart, fall into someone's heart
 * fall into somebody's mind, fall into someone's mind
 * fall of
 * fall off


 * fall off the turnip truck
 * fall on
 * fall on board
 * fall on deaf ears
 * fall one's crest
 * fall on one's face
 * fall on one's feet
 * fall on shore
 * fall on sleep
 * fall on one's knees
 * fall on one's sword
 * fall on the crest
 * fall open
 * fall out
 * fall out in
 * fall out of
 * fall out upon
 * fall out with
 * fall over
 * fall over oneself
 * fall over one's feet
 * fall pregnant
 * fall prey to
 * fall short
 * fall short of
 * fall short to
 * fall sick
 * fall silent


 * fallstreaks, fallstreifen
 * fall through
 * fall through the cracks
 * fall to
 * fall to be
 * fall together
 * fall to loggerheads
 * fall to mold, fall to mould
 * fall to oneself
 * fall to one's knees
 * fall to one's lot
 * fall to one's share
 * fall to pieces
 * fall to powder
 * fall to the ground
 * fall under
 * fall unto
 * fall upon
 * fall victim to
 * fall what can fall, fall what will fall
 * fall with
 * fall within
 * foul fall
 * let fall
 * let the chips fall where they may
 * may fall, may-fall
 * misfall
 * overfall
 * the rain in Spain falls mainly in the plain
 * refall
 * tendency of the rate of profit to fall
 * to-fall
 * under-fall
 * united we stand, divided we fall

Related terms

 * atfall
 * befall
 * fell (verb, as in "to fell a tree", "to fell an opponent")
 * i-falle
 * i-fallen


 * of-fall
 * to-fall
 * y-falle
 * yfalle, yfallen

Thesaurus
Niagara, Scotch mist, Waterloo, abate, abatement, ablate, accept, apostasy, ascend, assail, assault, associate with, attack, autumn, backslide, backsliding, bag, bank, bate, be destroyed, be eaten away, be found, be found wanting, be killed, be lost, be met with, be realized, be unsuccessful, beat down, beating, befall, befriend, begin, belly buster, belly flop, belly whopper, beset, betide, bite the dust, blood rain, bouleversement, bow, break, break up, breakdown, call on, call upon, cannonball, cant, capitulate, capitulation, capsize, capture, careen, cascade, catabasis, cataract, cave in, cease to be, cease to live, cheapen, chignon, chute, clash, climb, collapse, come, come a cropper, come about, come down, come off, come to naught, come to nothing, come to pass, come true, comedown, commence, conquering, conquest, consume, consume away, convulsion, corrode, count on, crash, crash dive, cropper, crumble, crumble to dust, crumple, culbute, cut, cut prices, daggle, dangle, deathblow, debacle, debasement, decadence, decadency, decay, decease, deceleration, declension, declination, decline, decline and fall, declivity, decrease, decrescendo, defeat, deflate, deflation, defluxion, deformation, degeneracy, degenerate, degenerateness, degeneration, degradation, deliquesce, demotion, depart, depart this life, depend, depravation, depravedness, depreciate, depreciation, derogation, descend, descending, descension, descent, destruction, deteriorate, deterioration, devaluate, devolution, die, die away, die down, differ, diminish, diminuendo, diminution, dip, dip down, disagree, disappoint, disintegrate, dispute, dive, down, downbend, downcome, downcurve, downfall, downflow, downgate, downgrade, downhill, downpour, downrush, downtrend, downturn, downward mobility, downward trend, drabble, drag, draggle, drape, draw back, drizzle, droop, drop, drop dead, drop down, drop off, dropping, drubbing, drum, dwindle, dwindling, dying, ebb, eclipse, effeteness, employ, erode, err, evening mist, eventuate, expire, fade, fading, fail, failing, failure, failure of nerve, fall again into, fall asleep, fall away, fall back, fall behind, fall dead, fall down, fall flat, fall for, fall from grace, fall headlong, fall in, fall in price, fall in with, fall of Adam, fall of man, fall off, fall out, fall over, fall prostrate, fall short, fall stillborn, fall through, fall to, fall to pieces, falling, falling-off, falls, false hair, fight, fizzle out, flap, flop, flounder, flow, flurry, force, forced landing, fragment, gainer, get a cropper, get cracking, get moving, get under way, give in, give up, give way, go, go about, go along with, go astray, go down, go downhill, go off, go out, go to pieces, go to ruin, go to smash, go under, go uphill, go wrong, gout of rain, grade, gravitate, gravitation, hang, hang down, hanging, hap, happen, harvest, harvest home, harvest time, have a relapse, have enough, have recourse to, header, hiding, hit a slump, hit rock bottom, hit the skids, inclination, incline, involution, jackknife, jew down, join, keel, keel over, lag, lambasting, languish, lapse, lapse back, lathering, lay an egg, lean, lessen, let up, lick the dust, licking, linn, list, lop, lose, lose altitude, lose out, lose the day, loss of tone, lower, lowering, lurch, make use of, mark down, mastery, melt away, miscarry, miss, mist, misty rain, mizzle, moderate, moisture, nappe, nod, nose dive, nose-dive, nosedive, occur, overcoming, overthrow, overturn, parachute, parachute jump, pare, part, pass, pass away, pass off, pass on, pass over, patter, pelt, pend, perish, pitch, pitter-patter, plop, plummet, plummeting, plump, plunge, plunk, pounce, pounce on, pounce upon, pour, pour down, pour with rain, power dive, pratfall, precipitate, precipitation, prostration, put off mortality, quarrel, quietus, quit this world, rain, rain tadpoles, raindrop, rainfall, rainwater, rake, rapids, rat, reach the depths, recede, recidivate, recidivation, recidivism, recur to, reduce, regress, regression, relapse, relent, remission, resort to, retire, retreat, retrocession, retrogradation, retrogression, return to, return to dust, revert, revert to, rise, ruin, run down, run low, running dive, sabotage, sag, sault, say uncle, seizure, set about, set upon, settle, shatter, shave, sheet of rain, shelve, shower, shower down, shrink, sidle, sin of Adam, sink, sink back, sinking, skid, skin-dive, sky dive, sky-dive, slacken, slant, slash, slide, slide back, slip, slip back, slippage, slope, slowdown, slump, smash, sound, spatter, spill, spit, splatter, spout, sprawl, spread-eagle, sprinkle, squabble, stagger, start, stationary dive, stoop, stop breathing, storm, stream, strike, stumble, subdual, subduing, subjugation, submission, submit, subside, subsidence, subversion, succumb, succumb to, support, surrender, swag, swallow, swan dive, sway, swing, switch, swoop, swoop down, tackle, tail off, tailspin, take a fall, take a flop, take a header, take a pratfall, take a spill, take on, take place, take the count, taking, tattoo, thrashing, tilt, tip, topple, topple down, topple over, totter, touch bottom, trail, transpire, trend downward, trim, trimming, trip, trouncing, tumble, turn turtle, undertake, undoing, unfrozen hydrometeor, up and die, upheaval, uprise, upset, use, vanquishment, wane, waste, waste away, waterfall, watershoot, wear, wear away, weep, wet, whipping, withdraw, wrangle, yield, yield again to, yield the ghost

Etymology
From fallen:, from  feallan:, from, from. Cognate with falle:,  vallen:,  fallen:,  falla:,  pùlti:,  σφάλλω:.

Verb

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:, سقط
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: падаць, упасць
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: caure
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 落下,
 * Croatian:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: kukkuma
 * Faroese: fall
 * Finnish: kaatua, pudota, sataa
 * French:
 * Galician: caer(se)
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Guaraní: 'a, kúi
 * Hindi:, पड़ना
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido: falar
 * Indonesian: jatuh, gugur, runtuh, tumbang
 * Interlingua: cader
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 崩れる, 落下,
 * Korean:, , , 하락하다
 * Kurdish:
 * Kurmanji: ketin, keftin
 * Sorani: kewtin


 * Latgalian:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: krist, nokrist
 * Lithuanian: kristi, nukristi
 * Macedonian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan:
 * Old English:
 * Persian:, فتادن
 * Polish:, spaść
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: crudar
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: tuit
 * Serbo-Croatian: падати, padati ; упасти, upasti
 * Slovak: padať, padnúť
 * Slovene:
 * Sotho:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: falla, trilla (esp. of something initially upright)
 * Telugu: పడు (paDu)
 * Thai:
 * Tupinambá: 'ar, kuî
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * Urdu:, پڑنا
 * Vietnamese:, , rớt,
 * West Frisian:


 * Afrikaans:
 * Armenian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 下降
 * Danish:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Irish:


 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:,  , снижаться , снизиться
 * Sotho:
 * Spanish: descender
 * Swedish:
 * Vietnamese:


 * Armenian:
 * Danish: kaste sig
 * Finnish:
 * Norwegian: kaste seg


 * Polish: paść
 * Russian:,  ,
 * Swedish: kasta sig


 * Armenian:
 * Danish:
 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Greek:
 * Old English:
 * Slovene:
 * Swedish:


 * Armenian:
 * Greek:


 * Italian:


 * Armenian:
 * Danish: falde
 * Faroese: fella
 * Greek:


 * Italian:
 * Polish: polegnąć
 * Russian:, погибать , погибнуть


 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,


 * German:
 * Portuguese:
 * Swedish:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: (ziek, verliefd, zwanger) worden, (in slaap) vallen
 * Finnish: tulla joksikin
 * French: ,


 * German: ,
 * Italian:, ,
 * Persian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

Noun

 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (luòxià)
 * Czech:
 * Danish: fald
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: kukkumine
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Interlingua: cadita
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 落下 (rakka)


 * Kurdish:
 * Kurmanci: ketin, keftin
 * Sorani: ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: cădere
 * Russian:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: పాటు (paaTu)


 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (duòluò)
 * Danish: fald
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * German: ,


 * Japanese: 没落 (botsuraku)
 * Old English:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:


 * : 'a, kúi
 * : musim gugur
 * : ngahuru
 * : 'ara, kuîa

Etymology
From Arabic

Noun
fall


 * 1) prophecy

Adjective
fall


 * 1) bad

Noun
fall


 * 1) fall, drop
 * 2) case

Verb
fall



Etymology
From fall:, from falla:. The grammatical sense is a calque of Latin casus:.

Noun

 * 1) fall, drop
 * 2)  case

Derived terms

 * áhrifsfall
 * ávarpsfall
 * deildarfall
 * eignarfall
 * fjarverufall
 * íferðarfall
 * íverufall
 * nefnifall
 * nærverufall
 * samvistarfall
 * staðarfall
 * sviftifall
 * tilgangsfall
 * tækisfall
 * úrferðarfall
 * verufall
 * þágufall
 * þolfall

Noun

 * 1) a fall
 * 2) a fall, loss of greatness or wealth, a bankruptcy
 * 3) a slope, a waterfall, the height of a slope or waterfall
 * fallet är omgivet av skog
 * the fall is surrounded by forest
 * fallet är sjutton meter
 * the water falls seventeen metres; the decline is seventeen metres
 * 1) a (legal) case
 * i alla fall
 * anyhow (in all cases)
 * i annat fall
 * otherwise (in another case)
 * i så fall
 * if so (in such a case)
 * i vilket fall som helst
 * in any case

Related terms

 * anfall
 * avfall
 * falla
 * fälla
 * fallrep
 * fallskärm
 * fallucka
 * infall
 * nedfall
 * rättsfall
 * utfall
 * vattenfall