Fall Meaning and Definition

Word: Fall

How to pronounce: fɔːl

Verb

Definitions:

1. Move downward, typically rapidly and freely without control, from a higher to a lower level.

Example sentences: "Five inches of snow fell through the night"

2. (of a person) lose one's balance and collapse.

Example sentences: "He stumbled, tripped, and fell"

3. Decrease in number, amount, intensity, or quality.

Example sentences: "Imports fell by 12 percent"

4. Be captured or defeated.

Example sentences: "The besieged city fell after three months"

5. Pass into a specified state, situation, or position.

Example sentences: "She fell pregnant"

Noun

Definitions:

1. An act of falling or collapsing; a sudden uncontrollable descent.

Example sentences: "His mother had a fall, hurting her leg as she alighted from a train"

2. A thing which falls or has fallen.

Example sentences: "In October came the first thin fall of snow"

3. A decrease in size, number, rate, or level; a decline.

Example sentences: "A big fall in unemployment"

4. A defeat or downfall.

Example sentences: "The fall of the government"

5. Autumn.

Example sentences: "That fall Roosevelt was elected to his first term"

Synonyms:

drop

fall out

drop out

falls

plummet

slump

shrink

decrease

dwindle

recede

diminish

wane

lessen

downgrade

decline

recession

degradation

declension

falloff

ebb

decadence

dusk

descend

stumble

come down

go

come

depart

start

crash

collapse

go down

slip

abatement

reduction

diminution

tumble

spill

shine

fell

strike

precipitate

become

get

accrue

return

autumn

die

perish

fall off

crumble

subside

abate

lower

hang

lowering

down

plunge

flow

cascade

cataract

downfall

depression

diminishment

decrement

descent

downhill

sink

lie

prostrate

settle

loss

dip

dive

nosedive

overthrow

defeat

topple

succumb

give up

devolve

relent

autumnal

pull hard

demise

end

sin

trip

lose

free fall

moderate

surrender

Antonyms:

rise

grow

leave

stand

topple

come out

increase

stand up

rise up

beat

grow up

smite

enhance

strike

growth

defeat

overthrow

development

emission

Derivations:

falling

fallen

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Fall in Other Languages...

Spanish: Caer

German: Fallen

French: Tomber

Italian: Cadere

Turkish: Düşme