fal

Verb

fall (third-person singular simple present falls, present participle falling, simple past fell, past participle fallen)

1. (intransitive) To move to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
   • Thrown from a cliff, the stone fell 100 feet before hitting the ground.

   Synonyms:

   drop, plummet, plunge

2. (intransitive) To come down, to drop or descend.
   • The rain fell at dawn.

   Synonyms:

   come down, descend, drop, cut down, fell, knock down, knock over, strike down

3. (intransitive) To come as if by dropping down.
   • Once or twice a noise fell upon his quick ear, and we halted, he standing revolver in hand in an attitude of defense. Each time, however, we ascertained that we had no occasion for alarm, the noise being made by some animal or bird ...1898, William Le Queux, Whoso Findeth a Wife, page 256
4. (intransitive) To come to the ground deliberately, to prostrate oneself.
   • He fell to the floor and begged for mercy.

   Synonyms:

   drop, lower oneself, prostrate oneself

5. (intransitive) To be brought to the ground.
6. (obsolete, transitive) To let fall; to drop.
   • For every tear he falls, a Trojan bleeds.1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC

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