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fall out

fall out noun: synonym of falling out (“rift following a disagreement or quarrel”).

Noun

fall out (plural fall outs)

  1. Synonym of falling out (“rift following a disagreement or quarrel”).
    • We had a fall out, couldn't come to terms and haven't talked since.
    • I've had a fall out with Nora, one of my tenants. She's packing up and leaving at this very moment.2019, Angela Barton, Magnolia House
    Synonyms:
    falling out

Verb

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

  1. (literally) To come out of something by falling.
    • I opened the cupboard and a can fell out onto my foot.
    • Part of No. 10 platform at Kings Cross was cordoned off on August 23 after a container of radio-active material had fallen from a trolley. The special box in which it was packed split open, allowing the container to fall out.1956 October, “Notes and News: Radioactivity at Kings Cross”, in Railway Magazine, page 711
  2. (idiomatic, intransitive) To cease to be on friendly terms.
    • Dave and I fell out after a long argument.
    • Petronius calleth this paſſion [i.e., jealousy] amantium furioſam æmulationem, a furious emulation, and their ſymptomes are well expreſſed by Sʳ Ieffrey Chaucer in his firſt Canterbury tale. It will make the neareſt & deareſt friends fall out; they will endure al other things to be common, goods...1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Iealousie, His Equivocations, Name, Definition, Extent, Seuerall Kindes, of Princes, Parents, Friends. In Beasts, Men, before Marriage, as...
  3. (intransitive, literally) To leave one's place in the current formation of ranks in order to take one's place in a new formation.
  4. (figuratively, intransitive) To leave one's current location to report for duty at a new location.
    • The company fell out for an artillery drill.
  5. (dialectal, intransitive) To pass out.
  6. (dated) To turn out, happen.
    • Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 1:10
    • I expected to be in the States long before this, but things fell out otherwise.1866, Mark Twain, in a letter to William Bowen, 7 May 1866
  7. (intransitive, obsolete) To fall off due to the quoins holding it in place having become wet and therefore loose.
  8. (intransitive, Of a trapdoor or similar) To give way under someone.
    • The board he was walking on fell out.
    Synonyms:
    drop out
  9. (figuratively, intransitive, usually, Of the ground, floor, snow) To cause someone to slip and/or fall down.
    • The ground fell out from under him.
    • When she left him, his world fell out beneath him.
    Synonyms:
    drop out
  10. (intransitive, slang) To be enthusiastic about something; to laugh very hard.
    • When the band started, everybody fell out.
  11. (intransitive, slang) To depart.
  12. (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To collapse; to pass out from intoxication.
  13. (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To be shocked by something.

fall out meaning in Telugu, Malayalam, Sanskrit and Nepali

fall out in Telugu

cease to be on friendly terms
విడిపోవు viḍipōvu

fall out in Malayalam

argue, quarrel, row
പിണങ്ങുക, തെറ്റിപ്പിരിയുക, കെറുവിക്കുക, പിണങ്ങിപ്പിരിയുക, തർക്കിക്കുക, വഴക്കിടുക
move out of line, move out of formation, stand at ease
അണിതെറ്റിക്കുക, വരിയിൽനിന്നു നീങ്ങി നിൽക്കുക, അണിയിൽനിന്നു മാറിനടക്കുക

fall out in Sanskrit

to fall out or away, disappear, vanish
शी śī, शीयते śī́yate
to fall out or off
शॄ śṝ

fall out in Nepali

to fall out, fall off
खस्नु khasnu
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fall out in Tagalog
warlahin

Synonyms of fall out

Forms of fall out

Noun
pluralfall outs
Verb
third-person singular presentfalls out
present participlefalling out
pastfell out
past participlefallen out

Words formed from fall out

Questions about fall out

What does fall out mean?
Fall out means synonym of falling out (“rift following a disagreement or quarrel”).
What is fall out in Telugu?
Fall out in Telugu is విడిపోవు (viḍipōvu). See Fall out meaning in Telugu.
What part of speech is fall out?
Fall out can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of fall out?
The plural of fall out is fall outs.

Words near fall out in the dictionary

  1. fall on one's face
  2. fall on one's feet
  3. fall on one's sword
  4. fall on someone's neck
  5. fall on stony ground
  6. fall out
  7. fall out of favor
  8. fall out of love
  9. fall out of the ugly tree and hit every branch
  10. fall out upon
  11. fall outs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fall out (page history and authors); fall out (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); शी (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); खस्नु (Nepali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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