Definition:
- (v. t.) 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.
- (v. t.) 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.
- (v. t.) To find a final outlet; to discharge its waters; to empty; -- with into; as, the river Rhone falls into the Mediterranean.
- (v. t.) To become prostrate and dead; to die; especially, to die by violence, as in battle.
- (v. t.) To cease to be active or strong; to die away; to lose strength; to subside; to become less intense; as, the wind falls.
- (v. t.) To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; -- said of the young of certain animals.
- (v. t.) 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.
- (v. t.) To be overthrown or captured; to be destroyed.
- (v. t.) 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.
- (v. t.) To become insnared or embarrassed; to be entrapped; to be worse off than before; asm to fall into error; to fall into difficulties.
- (v. t.) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; -- said of the countenance.
- (v. t.) To sink; to languish; to become feeble or faint; as, our spirits rise and fall with our fortunes.
- (v. t.) 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.
- (v. t.) To happen; to to come to pass; to light; to befall; to issue; to terminate.
- (v. t.) To come; to occur; to arrive.
- (v. t.) To begin with haste, ardor, or vehemence; to rush or hurry; as, they fell to blows.
- (v. t.) 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.
- (v. t.) To belong or appertain.
- (v. t.) To be dropped or uttered carelessly; as, an unguarded expression fell from his lips; not a murmur fell from him.
- (v. t.) To let fall; to drop.
- (v. t.) To sink; to depress; as, to fall the voice.
- (v. t.) To diminish; to lessen or lower.
- (v. t.) To bring forth; as, to fall lambs.
- (v. t.) To fell; to cut down; as, to fall a tree.
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) The act of dropping or tumbling from an erect posture; as, he was walking on ice, and had a fall.
- (n.) Death; destruction; overthrow; ruin.
- (n.) Downfall; degradation; loss of greatness or office; termination of greatness, power, or dominion; ruin; overthrow; as, the fall of the Roman empire.
- (n.) The surrender of a besieged fortress or town ; as, the fall of Sebastopol.
- (n.) Diminution or decrease in price or value; depreciation; as, the fall of prices; the fall of rents.
- (n.) A sinking of tone; cadence; as, the fall of the voice at the close of a sentence.
- (n.) Declivity; the descent of land or a hill; a slope.
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) Extent of descent; the distance which anything falls; as, the water of a stream has a fall of five feet.
- (n.) The season when leaves fall from trees; autumn.
- (n.) That which falls; a falling; as, a fall of rain; a heavy fall of snow.
- (n.) The act of felling or cutting down.
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) Formerly, a kind of ruff or band for the neck; a falling band; a faule.
- (n.) That part (as one of the ropes) of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting.
Compare fall with other words:
fall vs. fast
fall vs. nall
falk vs. fall
fall vs. falx
fall vs. farl
fall vs. mall
fall vs. pall
fall vs. gall
fall vs. fill
fall vs. hall
call vs. fall
fall vs. full
fall vs. tall
ball vs. fall
all vs. fall
fall vs. wall
dive vs. fall
failure vs. fall
fall vs. spillway
cadence vs. fall
fall vs. separate
fall vs. land
fall vs. feel
aftermath vs. fall
droop vs. fall
fall vs. rine
fall vs. roration
fall vs. infralapsarian
fall vs. incidency
fall vs. stake
fall vs. reduce
fall vs. sink
fall vs. toddler
fall vs. help
fall vs. run
fail vs. fall
dwell vs. fall
fall vs. inertia
fall vs. slide
fall vs. weather
caducous vs. fall
fall vs. precipitant
fall vs. sile
cropper vs. fall
fall vs. flump
buster vs. fall
fall vs. halse
fall vs. winter
fall vs. seep
fall vs. lapse
fall vs. plump
brit vs. fall
fall vs. precipitation
fall vs. solstice
equinox vs. fall
fall vs. leaves
fall vs. sin
fall vs. header
fall vs. stumble
fall vs. spill
fall vs. prelapsarian
fall vs. undercut
fall vs. topple
fall vs. relapse
fall vs. trickle
dribble vs. fall
fall vs. opening
fall vs. harvest
fall vs. subside
fall vs. stagger
fall vs. souse
fall vs. incur
douse vs. fall
crater vs. fall
fall vs. felled
fall vs. labile
fall vs. tumble
fall vs. flop
fall vs. keel
fall vs. founder
aventure vs. fall
avale vs. fall
avalanche vs. fall
fall vs. scatter
bottom vs. fall
fall vs. semester
fall vs. sie
fall vs. parachute
fall vs. tank
decline vs. fall
break vs. fall
fall vs. rain
fall vs. windfall
fall vs. rainfall
fall vs. pratfall
fall vs. pitfall
fall vs. outfall
fall vs. offal
fall vs. nightfall
fall vs. landfall
fall vs. footfall
fall vs. fallfish
evenfall vs. fall
earthfall vs. fall
dewfall vs. fall
deadfall vs. fall
catfall vs. fall
backfall vs. fall
ascent vs. fall
downfall vs. fall
fall vs. rap
fall vs. reduction
decrease vs. fall
fall vs. lowering
descent vs. fall
ell vs. fall
fall vs. scots
fall vs. waterfall
fall vs. tackle
fall vs. power
fall vs. hoisting
drift vs. fall
fall vs. pin
fall vs. mat
fall vs. stone
fall vs. out
fall vs. wicket
fall vs. status
batsman vs. fall
fall vs. vacuum
fall vs. greatness
fall vs. fluid
befall vs. fall
fall vs. overfall
fall vs. misfall
fall vs. falling
fall vs. faller
fall vs. fallen
fall vs. smite
fall vs. rise
fall vs. fell
ascend vs. fall
fall vs. get
dip vs. fall
fall vs. responsibility
fall vs. vanquish
fall vs. overthrow
defeat vs. fall
beat vs. fall
fall vs. lower
fall vs. plunge
calamity vs. fall
fall vs. plummet
change vs. fall
befallen vs. fall
fall vs. fate
become vs. fall
chance vs. fall
arrive vs. fall
allot vs. fall
battle vs. fall
die vs. fall
defeated vs. fall
fall vs. overthrown
collapse vs. fall
fall vs. prostrate
deliberately vs. fall
drop vs. fall
descend vs. fall
fall vs. gravity
fall vs. increase
autumn vs. fall
fall vs. loss