fall

Meaning

1. To be moved downwards.
2. To be moved downwards.
3. To be moved downwards.
4. To be moved downwards.
5. To be moved downwards.
6. (obsolete) To move downwards.
7. (obsolete) To move downwards.
8. To move downwards.
9. To change, often negatively.
10. To change, often negatively.
11. To change, often negatively.
12. To change, often negatively.
13. To occur (on a certain day of the week, date, or similar); to happen.
14. To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
15. (obsolete) To diminish; to lessen or lower.
16. (obsolete) To bring forth.
17. (obsolete) To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; said of the young of certain animals.
18. To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin.
19. To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.
20. To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the face.
21. To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).
22. To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.
23. To be dropped or uttered carelessly.
24. To hang down (under the influence of gravity).
25. (slang) To visit; to go to a place.

drop

autumn

drop down

become lower

be ruined

let fall

be overthrown

stumble over

act of falling

have a bad debt

be friable

devolve

get worse

cataract

be established

crash down

fall senseless

hang down

slide down

succumb to

trim down

be captured

be defeated

be destroyed

be down

be flat

be reduced

be unsuccessful

fall headlong

falling-off

falling out

fall to the ground

flop down

flutter down

go astray

go out of sight

go rapidly

grow dark

grow thin

happen to

have had it

jump down

lie in disorder

lose it

move downward

on one’s knees

reduction to the ranks

rush into

stub one’s toe

become calm

trip over

come to ruin

withering of the grass

be spilled

become less

Fall of Man

run again

breath one’s last

catch one’s foot against

faint to death

go headlong

lose balance

take a fall

wreck and ruin

fall over2

loss of innocence

be deprived

dropping down

have recourse

slip off or down

lose dignity

defervesce

descend d settle

ebb off

ebb out

return d pass d devolve

deviation from virtue

extend down

falling-band

give in to temptation

pass into enemy hands

yield to temptation

fall-away

collapse to go down

fell over

be over thrown

cease burning

fall in battle

become broken

rain fall

root

rewduction

downward discount

be taken

in spring

in the spring

lose one’s way

make worse

miscarry

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fɔl/

Verb from Middle English fallen, from Old English feallan (“to fall, fail, decay, die, attack”), from Proto-West Germanic *fallan (“to fall”), from Proto-Germanic *fallaną (“to fall”). Cognate with West Frisian falle (“to fall”), Low German fallen (“to fall”), Dutch vallen (“to fall”), German fallen (“to fall”), Danish falde (“to fall”), Norwegian Bokmål falle (“to fall”), Norwegian Nynorsk falla (“to fall”), Icelandic falla (“to fall”), Albanian fal (“forgive, pray, salute, greet”), Lithuanian pùlti (“to attack, rush”). Noun from Middle English fal, fall, falle, from Old English feall, ġefeall (“a falling, fall”) and Old English fealle (“trap, snare”), from Proto-Germanic *fallą, *fallaz (“a fall, trap”). Cognate with Dutch val, German Fall (“fall”) and German Falle (“trap, snare”), Danish fald, Swedish fall, Icelandic fall. Sense of "autumn" is attested by the 1660s in England as a shortening of fall of the leaf (1540s), from the falling of leaves during this season. Along with autumn, it mostly replaced the older name harvest as that name began to be associated strictly with the act of harvesting. Compare spring, which began as a shortening of “spring of the leaf”.