fall
fall is a 4-letter English word with 85 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; the mercury falls in the barometer. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; the mercury falls in the barometer.
- transitive verb. To cease to be erect; to take suddenly a recumbent posture; to become prostrate; to drop; as, a child totters and falls; a tree falls; a worshiper falls on his knees.
- transitive verb. To find a final outlet; to discharge its waters; to empty; -- with into; as, the river Rhone falls into the Mediterranean.
- transitive verb. To become prostrate and dead; to die; especially, to die by violence, as in battle.
- transitive verb. To cease to be active or strong; to die away; to lose strength; to subside; to become less intense; as, the wind falls.
- transitive verb. To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; -- said of the young of certain animals.
- transitive verb. To decline in power, glory, wealth, or importance; to become insignificant; to lose rank or position; to decline in weight, value, price etc.; to become less; as, the falls; stocks fell two points.
- transitive verb. To be overthrown or captured; to be destroyed.
- transitive verb. To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin; to depart from the faith; to apostatize; to sin.
- transitive verb. To become insnared or embarrassed; to be entrapped; to be worse off than before; asm to fall into error; to fall into difficulties.
- transitive verb. To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; -- said of the countenance.
- transitive verb. To sink; to languish; to become feeble or faint; as, our spirits rise and fall with our fortunes.
- transitive verb. To pass somewhat suddenly, and passively, into a new state of body or mind; to become; as, to fall asleep; to fall into a passion; to fall in love; to fall into temptation.
- transitive verb. To happen; to to come to pass; to light; to befall; to issue; to terminate.
- transitive verb. To come; to occur; to arrive.
- transitive verb. To begin with haste, ardor, or vehemence; to rush or hurry; as, they fell to blows.
- transitive verb. To pass or be transferred by chance, lot, distribution, inheritance, or otherwise; as, the estate fell to his brother; the kingdom fell into the hands of his rivals.
- transitive verb. To belong or appertain.
- transitive verb. To be dropped or uttered carelessly; as, an unguarded expression fell from his lips; not a murmur fell from him.
- transitive verb. To let fall; to drop.
- transitive verb. To sink; to depress; as, to fall the voice.
- transitive verb. To diminish; to lessen or lower.
- transitive verb. To bring forth; as, to fall lambs.
- transitive verb. To fell; to cut down; as, to fall a tree.
- noun. The act of falling; a dropping or descending be the force of gravity; descent; as, a fall from a horse, or from the yard of ship.
- noun. The act of dropping or tumbling from an erect posture; as, he was walking on ice, and had a fall.
- noun. Death; destruction; overthrow; ruin.
- noun. Downfall; degradation; loss of greatness or office; termination of greatness, power, or dominion; ruin; overthrow; as, the fall of the Roman empire.
- noun. The surrender of a besieged fortress or town ; as, the fall of Sebastopol.
- noun. Diminution or decrease in price or value; depreciation; as, the fall of prices; the fall of rents.
- noun. A sinking of tone; cadence; as, the fall of the voice at the close of a sentence.
- noun. Declivity; the descent of land or a hill; a slope.
- noun. Descent of water; a cascade; a cataract; a rush of water down a precipice or steep; -- usually in the plural, sometimes in the singular; as, the falls of Niagara.
- noun. The discharge of a river or current of water into the ocean, or into a lake or pond; as, the fall of the Po into the Gulf of Venice.
- noun. Extent of descent; the distance which anything falls; as, the water of a stream has a fall of five feet.
- noun. The season when leaves fall from trees; autumn.
- noun. That which falls; a falling; as, a fall of rain; a heavy fall of snow.
- noun. The act of felling or cutting down.
- noun. Lapse or declension from innocence or goodness. Specifically: The first apostasy; the act of our first parents in eating the forbidden fruit; also, the apostasy of the rebellious angels.
- noun. Formerly, a kind of ruff or band for the neck; a falling band; a faule.
- noun. That part (as one of the ropes) of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting.
- noun. the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions)
"they were protected until the capitulation of the fort"
- noun. a sudden drop from an upright position
"he had a nasty spill on the ice"
- noun. a lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity
"a fall from virtue"
- noun. a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
"a drop of 57 points on the Dow Jones index"
"there was a drop in pressure in the pulmonary artery"
- noun. a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity
"it was a miracle that he survived the drop from that height"
- noun. a movement downward
"the rise and fall of the tides"
- noun. a sudden decline in strength or number or importance
"the fall of the House of Hapsburg"
- noun. when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat
- noun. the lapse of mankind into sinfulness because of the sin of Adam and Eve
"women have been blamed ever since the Fall"
- noun. a downward slope or bend
- noun. the time of day immediately following sunset
"he loved the twilight"
"they finished before the fall of night"
- noun. the season when the leaves fall from the trees
"in the fall of 1973"
- verb. pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind
"fall into a trap"
"She fell ill"
- verb. decrease in size, extent, or range
"The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"
"The cabin pressure fell dramatically"
- verb. come as if by falling
"Night fell"
"Silence fell"
- verb. go as if by falling
"Grief fell from our hearts"
- verb. occur at a specified time or place
"Christmas falls on a Monday this year"
"The accent falls on the first syllable"
- verb. begin vigorously
"The prisoners fell to work right away"
- verb. be born, used chiefly of lambs
"The lambs fell in the afternoon"
- verb. come out; issue
"silly phrases fell from her mouth"
- verb. be cast down
"his eyes fell"
- verb. assume a disappointed or sad expression
"Her face fell when she heard that she would be laid off"
"his crest fell"
- verb. fall or flow in a certain way
"This dress hangs well"
"Her long black hair flowed down her back"
- verb. move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
"The temperature is going down"
"The barometer is falling"
- verb. descend in free fall under the influence of gravity
"The branch fell from the tree"
"The unfortunate hiker fell into a crevasse"
- verb. drop oneself to a lower or less erect position
"She fell back in her chair"
"He fell to his knees"
- verb. lose an upright position suddenly
"The vase fell over and the water spilled onto the table"
"Her hair fell across her forehead"
- verb. slope downward
"The hills around here fall towards the ocean"
- verb. move in a specified direction
"The line of men fall forward"
- verb. be inherited by
"The estate fell to my sister"
"The land returned to the family"
- verb. fall to somebody by assignment or lot
"The task fell to me"
"It fell to me to notify the parents of the victims"
- verb. come into the possession of
"The house accrued to the oldest son"
- verb. be captured
"The cities fell to the enemy"
- verb. to be given by assignment or distribution
"The most difficult task fell on the youngest member of the team"
"The onus fell on us"
- verb. to be given by right or inheritance
"The estate fell to the oldest daughter"
- verb. lose office or power
"The government fell overnight"
"The Qing Dynasty fell with Sun Yat-sen"
- verb. suffer defeat, failure, or ruin
"We must stand or fall"
"fall by the wayside"
- verb. yield to temptation or sin
"Adam and Eve fell"
- verb. lose one's chastity
"a fallen woman"
- verb. touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly
"Light fell on her face"
"The sun shone on the fields"
- verb. die, as in battle or in a hunt
"Many soldiers fell at Verdun"
"Several deer have fallen to the same gun"
- verb. be due
"payments fall on the 1st of the month"
- verb. come under, be classified or included
"fall into a category"
"This comes under a new heading"
- verb. fall from clouds
"rain, snow and sleet were falling"
"Vesuvius precipitated its fiery, destructive rage on Herculaneum"
Synonyms
capitulation, surrender, spill, tumble, dip, drop, downfall, pin, declension, declination, decline, declivity, descent, downslope, crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilight, autumn, decrease
Common word forms
falls, fallal, fallen, faller, falling
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