VERB | motion | fall | descend in free fall under the influence of gravity |
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motion | fall, descend, go down, come down | move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way | |
change | fall | pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind | |
stative | fall, come | come under, be classified or included | |
weather | fall, precipitate, come down | fall from clouds | |
social | fall | suffer defeat, failure, or ruin | |
stative | fall | die, as in battle / battle or in a hunt / hunt | |
stative | fall, shine, strike | touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly | |
possession | fall | be captured | |
change | fall | occur at a specified time or place | |
change | fall, decrease, diminish, lessen | decrease in size, extent, or range | |
social | fall | yield to temptation or sin | |
social | fall | lose office or power | |
possession | fall | to be given by assignment or distribution | |
motion | fall | move in a specified direction | |
stative | fall | be due | |
social | fall | lose one's chastity | |
possession | fall | to be given by right or inheritance | |
possession | fall, accrue | come into the possession of | |
possession | fall, light | fall to somebody by assignment or lot | |
possession | fall, return, pass, devolve | be inherited by | |
motion | fall | slope downward | |
motion | fall, fall down | lose an upright position suddenly | |
motion | fall | drop oneself to a lower or less erect position | |
contact | fall, hang, flow | fall or flow in a certain way | |
change | fall | assume a disappointed or sad expression | |
change | fall | be cast down | |
change | fall | come out | |
change | fall | be born, used chiefly of lambs | |
change | fall | begin vigorously | |
change | fall | go as if by falling | |
change | fall, descend, settle | come as if by falling | |
NOUN | time | fall, autumn | the season when the leaves fall from the trees |
act | fall, spill, tumble | a sudden drop from an upright position | |
event | Fall | the lapse of mankind into sinfulness because of the sin of Adam and Eve | |
object | fall, descent, declivity, decline, declination, declension, downslope | a downward slope or bend | |
act | fall | a lapse into sin | |
event | fall, downfall | a sudden decline in strength or number or importance | |
event | fall | a movement downward | |
act | fall, capitulation, surrender | the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions) | |
time | fall, twilight, dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall, evenfall, crepuscule, crepuscle | the time of day immediately following sunset | |
event | fall, pin | when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat | |
event | fall, drop | a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity | |
attribute | fall, drop, dip, free fall | a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity |
Sounds | faa'l; fao'l | |
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Rhymes | aerosol ... Wiesenthal: 31 rhymes with aal... | |
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Meaning | The season when the leaves fall from the trees. | |
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Example | "in the fall of 1973" | |
Synonym | autumn | |
Parts | Indian summer, Saint Martin's summer | A period of unusually warm weather in the autumn |
autumnal equinox, September equinox, fall equinox | September 22 | |
Broader | season, time of year | One of the natural periods into which the year is divided by the equinoxes and solstices or atmospheric conditions |
Spanish | otoñada, otoño | |
Catalan | tardorada, tardor |
Meaning | A sudden drop from an upright position. | |
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Synonyms | spill, tumble | |
Narrower | pratfall | A fall onto your buttocks |
wipeout | A spill in some sport (as a fall from a bicycle or while skiing or being capsized on a surfboard) | |
Broader | slip, trip | An accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall |
Spanish | caída | |
Catalan | caiguda | |
Verbs | fall | descend in free fall under the influence of gravity |
fall | drop oneself to a lower or less erect position | |
fall | lose an upright position suddenly |
Meaning | The lapse of mankind into sinfulness because of the sin of Adam and Eve. | |
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Instance of | event | Something that happens at a given place and time |
Spanish | caída, pecado capital | |
Verbs | fall | yield to temptation or sin |
Meaning | A downward slope or bend. | |
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Synonyms | descent, declivity, decline, declination, declension, downslope | |
Narrower | downhill | The downward slope of a hill |
steep | A steep place (as on a hill) | |
Broader | slope, incline, side | An elevated geological formation |
Opposite | ascent, acclivity, rise, raise, climb, upgrade | An upward slope or grade (as in a road) |
Spanish | bajada, caída, declinación, declive, declividad, descenso, inclinación, pendiente | |
Catalan | baixada, baixant, caiguda, declinació, declivi, inclinació, rost | |
Verbs | fall | slope downward |
Meaning | A lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity. | |
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Example | "a fall from virtue" | |
Broader | sin, sinning | An act that is regarded by theologians as a transgression of God's will |
Spanish | caída | |
Verbs | fall | yield to temptation or sin |
fall | lose one's chastity |
Meaning | A sudden decline in strength or number or importance. | |
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Example | "the fall of the House of Hapsburg" | |
Synonym | downfall | |
Narrower | anticlimax | A disappointing decline after a previous rise |
Broader | weakening | Becoming weaker |
Opposite | rise | A growth in strength or number or importance |
Spanish | caída, perdición, ruina | |
Catalan | caiguda, perdició, ruïna | |
Verbs | fall | lose office or power |
fall | suffer defeat, failure, or ruin |
Meaning | A movement downward. | |
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Example | "the rise and fall of the tides" | |
Broader | change of location, travel | A movement through space that changes the location of something |
Opposite | rise, rising, ascent, ascension | A movement upward |
Verbs | fall | move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way |
Meaning | The act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions). | |
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Synonyms | capitulation, surrender | |
Broader | loss | The act of losing someone or something |
Spanish | capitulación | |
Catalan | capitulació | |
Verbs | fall | be captured |
fall | lose office or power | |
fall | suffer defeat, failure, or ruin |
Meaning | The time of day immediately following sunset. | |
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Example | "they finished before the fall of night" | |
Synonyms | twilight, dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall, evenfall, crepuscule, crepuscle | |
Part of | evening, eve, even, eventide | The latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall) |
Narrower | night | A shortening of nightfall |
Broader | hour, time of day | clock time |
Spanish | anochecer, anochecida, anochecido, atardecer, atardecida, crepuscle, crepúsculo, evenfall, gloam, ocaso | |
Catalan | capvespre, crepuscle, crepuscle vespertí, evenfall, gloam, vespre |
Meaning | When a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat. | |
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Synonym | pin | |
Part of | wrestling match | A match between wrestlers |
Narrower | takedown | (amateur wrestling) being brought to the mat from a standing position |
Broader | victory, triumph | A successful ending of a struggle or contest / contest |
Meaning | A free and rapid descent by the force of gravity. | |
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Synonym | drop | |
Narrower | free fall | The ideal falling motion of something subject only to a gravitational field |
plunge | A steep and rapid fall | |
precipitation | The act of casting down or falling headlong from a height | |
Broader | descent | A movement downward |
gravitation | movement downward resulting from gravitational attraction | |
Spanish | caída, despeño | |
Catalan | caiguda | |
Adjectives | prelapsarian | of or relating to the time before the Fall of Adam and Eve |
Verbs | fall | descend in free fall under the influence of gravity |
fall | lose an upright position suddenly |
Meaning | A sudden sharp decrease in some quantity. | |
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Example | "when that became known the price of their stock went into free fall" | |
Synonyms | drop, dip, free fall | |
Narrower | correction | A drop in stock market activity or stock prices following a period of increases / increases |
voltage drop | A decrease in voltage along a conductor through which current is flowing | |
Broader | decrease, decrement | The amount by which something decreases |
Spanish | bajada, baja, bajón, caída, descenso | |
Catalan | baixada, baixa, caiguda, descendiment, descens | |
Verbs | fall | decrease in size, extent, or range |
Meaning | descend in free fall under the influence of gravity. | |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s | |
Broader | travel, go, move, locomote | change location |
Similar to | precipitate, come down, fall | fall from clouds |
Spanish | caerse, caer | |
Catalan | caure | |
Nouns | fall | a sudden drop from an upright position |
fall | a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity | |
faller | a person who falls |
Meaning | Pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind. | |
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Pattern | Something is ----ing PP; Something ----s Adjective/Noun; Somebody ----s Adjective; Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something; Somebody ----s PP | |
Examples |
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Narrower | drop | Fall or sink into a state of exhaustion or death |
fall in love | Begin to experience feelings of love / love towards | |
Broader | change state, turn | Undergo a transformation or a change of position or action |
See also | break, separate, split up, fall apart, come apart | Become separated / separated into pieces or fragments |
crumble, fall apart | break or fall apart into fragments | |
fall back, drop off, fall behind, recede | retreat | |
fall for | Be deceived / deceived, duped, or entrapped by | |
fall through, fall flat, founder, flop | fail utterly | |
lag, dawdle, fall back, fall behind | hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc. | |
slip, drop off, drop away, fall away | get worse | |
Spanish | caer | |
Catalan | caure |
Meaning | Come under, be classified or included. | |
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Pattern | Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP | |
Example | "fall into a category" | |
Synonym | come | |
Broader | be | Have the quality of being |
Spanish | encontrarse, estar | |
Catalan | estar |
Meaning | fall from clouds. | |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s something | |
Example | "rain, snow and sleet were falling" | |
Synonyms | precipitate, come down | |
Entails | condense, distill, distil | Undergo condensation |
Narrower | hail | precipitate as small ice particles |
rain, rain down | precipitate as rain | |
sleet | precipitate as a mixture of rain and snow | |
snow | fall as snow | |
spat | come down like raindrops | |
Similar to | fall | descend in free fall under the influence of gravity |
Spanish | bajar, caer, precipitar | |
Catalan | caure |
Meaning | Suffer defeat, failure, or ruin. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s | |
Examples |
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Broader | fail, go wrong, miscarry | Be unsuccessful |
Spanish | fracasar | |
Nouns | fall | the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions) |
fall | a sudden decline in strength or number or importance |
Meaning | die, as in battle / battle or in a hunt / hunt. | |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP | |
Example | "Several deer have fallen to the same gun" | |
Broader | die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it | Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain / sustain life |
Similar to | fall | Be captured |
fall | Lose office or power | |
Spanish | caer |
Meaning | touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly. | |
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Pattern | Something ----s something | |
Synonyms | shine, strike | |
Broader | happen, hap, go on, pass off, occur, pass, fall out, come about, take place | Come to pass |
Spanish | brillar | |
Catalan | brillar |
Meaning | Be captured. | |
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Pattern | Something ----s | |
Broader | yield | Cease opposition |
Similar to | fall | die, as in battle / battle or in a hunt / hunt |
Spanish | caer | |
Nouns | fall | the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions) |
Meaning | occur at a specified time or place. | |
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Pattern | Something is ----ing PP | |
Examples |
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Broader | happen, hap, go on, pass off, occur, pass, fall out, come about, take place | Come to pass |
Similar to | fall | Be due |
Spanish | caer | |
Catalan | caure |
Meaning | Yield to temptation or sin. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s | |
Broader | fall | Lose one's chastity |
sin, transgress, trespass | commit a sin | |
Similar to | fall | Lose one's chastity |
Spanish | caer | |
Nouns | Fall | the lapse of mankind into sinfulness because of the sin of Adam and Eve |
fall | a lapse into sin |
Meaning | Lose office or power. | |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s | |
Broader | leave office, quit, step down, resign | Give up or retire from a position |
Similar to | fall | die, as in battle / battle or in a hunt / hunt |
Spanish | caer | |
Nouns | fall | the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions) |
fall | a sudden decline in strength or number or importance |
Meaning | To be given by assignment or distribution. | |
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Pattern | Something is ----ing PP | |
Similar to | fall, light | fall to somebody by assignment or lot |
fall | To be given by right or inheritance | |
Spanish | tocar | |
Catalan | tocar |
Meaning | Move in a specified direction. | |
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Pattern | Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP | |
Example | "The line of men fall forward" | |
Broader | travel, go, move, locomote | change location |
Meaning | Be due. | |
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Pattern | Something is ----ing PP | |
Example | "payments fall on the 1st of the month" | |
Broader | be | Have the quality of being |
Similar to | fall | occur at a specified time or place |
Meaning | Lose one's chastity. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s | |
Example | "a fallen woman" | |
Narrower | fall | Yield to temptation or sin |
Similar to | fall | Yield to temptation or sin |
Nouns | fall | a lapse into sin |
Meaning | To be given by right or inheritance. | |
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Pattern | Something is ----ing PP | |
Similar to | fall | To be given by assignment or distribution |
Spanish | corresponder, tocar | |
Catalan | pertocar, tocar |
Meaning | Come into the possession of. | |
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Pattern | Something ----s somebody | |
Synonym | accrue | |
Broader | change hands, change owners | Be transferred to another owner |
Similar to | fall, light | fall to somebody by assignment or lot |
fall, return, pass, devolve | Be inherited by | |
Spanish | acrecentar, acumularse, recaer |
Meaning | fall to somebody by assignment or lot. | |
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Pattern | Something ----s somebody; Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE | |
Synonym | light | |
Broader | fall, return, pass, devolve | Be inherited by |
Similar to | accrue, fall | Come into the possession of |
fall | To be given by assignment or distribution | |
Spanish | iluminar, recaer |
Meaning | Be inherited by. | |
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Pattern | Something ----s somebody | |
Synonyms | return, pass, devolve | |
Narrower | fall, light | fall to somebody by assignment or lot |
Broader | change hands, change owners | Be transferred to another owner |
Similar to | accrue, fall | Come into the possession of |
Spanish | reincorporar, retornar | |
Catalan | reincorporar, retornar |
Meaning | slope downward. | |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Something is ----ing PP | |
Example | "The hills around here fall towards the ocean" | |
Broader | slope, incline, pitch | Be at an angle |
Spanish | descender | |
Nouns | fall | a downward slope or bend |
Meaning | Lose an upright position suddenly. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s | |
Synonym | fall down | |
Broader | change posture | Undergo a change in bodily posture |
Similar to | fall | Drop oneself to a lower or less erect position |
Spanish | caer | |
Catalan | caure | |
Nouns | fall | a sudden drop from an upright position |
fall | a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity |
Meaning | Drop oneself to a lower or less erect position. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s | |
Broader | change posture | Undergo a change in bodily posture |
Similar to | fall, fall down | Lose an upright position suddenly |
Nouns | fall | a sudden drop from an upright position |
Meaning | fall or flow in a certain way. | |
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Pattern | Something ----s Adjective/Noun | |
Synonyms | hang, flow | |
Spanish | caer | |
Catalan | caure |
Meaning | assume a disappointed or sad expression. | |
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Pattern | Something ----s | |
Broader | change | Undergo a change |
Similar to | fall | Be cast down |
Meaning | Be cast down. | |
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Pattern | Something ----s | |
Broader | change | Undergo a change |
Similar to | fall | assume a disappointed or sad expression |
Meaning | Come out; issue. | |
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Pattern | Something is ----ing PP | |
Broader | issue, emerge, come out, come forth, go forth, egress | Come out of |
Spanish | salir |
Meaning | be born, used chiefly of lambs. | |
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Pattern | Something ----s | |
Broader | be born | Come into existence through birth |
Meaning | Begin vigorously. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s PP | |
Broader | get down, begin, get, start out, start, set about, set out, commence | Take the first ... / first step or steps in carrying out an action |
Meaning | go as if by falling. | |
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Pattern | Something is ----ing PP | |
Broader | disappear, vanish, go away | Get lost, as without warning or explanation |
Similar to | fall, descend, settle | Come as if by falling |
Spanish | caer |
Meaning | Come as if by falling. | |
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Pattern | Something ----s | |
Synonyms | descend, settle | |
Broader | come | Come to pass |
Similar to | fall | go as if by falling |
Spanish | asentarse, caer, descender |
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