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(verb) pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind; "fall into a trap"; "She fell ill"; "They fell out of favor"; "Fall in love" |
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Related Words: change state, fall in love, precipitate, turn |
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(verb) come as if by falling; "Night fell" |
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Related Words: come |
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(verb) go as if by falling; "Grief fell from our hearts |
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Related Words: disappear, go away, vanish |
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(verb) occur at a specified time or place; "Christmas falls on a Monday this year"; "The accent falls on the first syllable" |
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Related Words: come about, go on, hap, happen, occur, pass, pass off, take place |
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(verb) begin vigorously; "The prisoners fell to work right away" |
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Related Words: begin, commence, get, set about, set out, start, start out |
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(verb) be born, used chiefly of lambs: "The lambs fell in the afternoon" |
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Related Words: be born |
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(verb) come out; issue; "silly phrases fell from her mouth" |
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Related Words: come forth, come out, emerge, issue |
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(verb) be cast down; "his eyes fell" |
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Related Words: change |
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(verb) assume a disappointed or sad expression; "Her face fell when she heard that she would be laid off" |
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Related Words: change |
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(noun) a lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity; "a fall from virtue" |
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Related Words: sin, sinning |
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(verb) descend in free fall under the influence of gravity; "The branch fell from the tree"; "The unfortunate hiker fell into a crevasse" |
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Related Words: go, locomote, move, travel |
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(verb) drop oneself to a lower or less erect position; "She fell back in her chair" |
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Related Words: change posture |
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(verb) lose an upright position suddenly; "The vase fell over and the water spilled onto the table" |
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Related Words: change posture |
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(verb) slope downward; "The hills around here fall towards the ocean" |
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Related Words: incline, pitch, slope |
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(verb) move in a specified direction; "The line of men fall forward" |
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Related Words: go, locomote, move, travel |
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(verb) be inherited by; "The estate fell to my sister"; "The land returned to the family"; The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead" |
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Synonyms: devolve, pass, return |
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Related Words: change hands, fall, light |
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(verb) fall to somebody by assignment or lot: "The task fell to me"; "It fell to me to notify the parents of the victims" |
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Synonyms: light |
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Related Words: devolve, fall, pass, return |
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(verb) be captured; "The cities fell to the enemy" |
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Related Words: yield |
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(verb) to be given by assignment or distribution; "The most difficult task fell on the youngest member of the team" |
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(verb) to be given by right or inheritance; "The estate fell to the oldest daughter" |
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(verb) lose office or power; "The government fell overnight"; "The Qing Dynasty fell with Sun Yat-sen" |
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Related Words: leave office, quit, step down |
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(verb) suffer defeat, failure, or ruin; "We must stand or fall" |
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Related Words: fail, go wrong, miscarry |
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(verb) yield to temptation or sin "Adam and Eve fell" |
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Related Words: sin |
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(verb) lose one's chastity; "a fallen woman" |
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(verb) touch or seem as if touching; "Light fell on her face"; "The light struck the golden necklace" |
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Synonyms: shine, strike |
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Related Words: be, occur |
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(verb) die, as in battle or in a hunt; "Many soldiers fell at Verdun"; "Several deer have fallen to the same gun" |
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Related Words: decease, die, exit, expire, go, pass away, perish |
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(verb) be due; "payments fall on the 1st of the month" |
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Related Words: be |
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(verb) come under, be classified or included; "fall into a category"; "This comes under a new heading" |
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Synonyms: come |
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Related Words: be |
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(noun) a sudden decline in strength or number or importance; "the fall of the House of Hapsburg" |
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Synonyms: downfall |
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Related Words: anticlimax, weakening |
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Antonyms: rise |
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(noun) a movement downward; "the rise and fall of the tides" |
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Related Words: change of location, travel |
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Antonyms: rise |
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(noun) when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat |
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Synonyms: pin |
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Related Words: takedown, triumph, victory |
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(noun) the lapse of mankind into sinfulness because of the sin of Adam and Eve; "women have been blamed ever since the Fall" |
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Related Words: event |
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(noun) the season when the leaves fall from the trees; "in the fall of 1973" |
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Synonyms: autumn |
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Related Words: season, time of year |
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(noun) the act of surrendering (under agreed conditions); "they were protected until the capitulation of the fort" |
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Synonyms: capitulation, surrender |
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Related Words: loss |
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(verb) fall or flow in a certain way; "This dress hangs well"; "Her long black hair flowed down her back" |
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Synonyms: flow, hang |
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(verb) move downward but not necessarily all the way; "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "Real estate prices are coming down" |
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Synonyms: come down, descend, go down |
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Related Words: alight, avalanche, cascade, cascade down, climb down, crash, dismount, dive, drip, drop, drop down, fall down, flop, get down, get off, go, go down, go under, light, locomote, move, pitch, plop, plunge, plunk, pounce, precipitate, rappel, roll down, set, settle, sink, swoop, topple, travel, tumble, unhorse |
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Antonyms: rise |
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(verb) come into the possession of; "The house accrued to the oldest son" |
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Synonyms: accrue |
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Related Words: change hands |
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(noun) a sharp decrease in some quantity: "a drop of 57 points on the Dow Jones index"; "there was a drop in pressure in the pulmonary artery" |
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Synonyms: drop |
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Related Words: decrease, decrement |
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(noun) a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity; "it was a miracle that he survived the drop from that height" |
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Synonyms: drop, falling |
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Related Words: descent, plunge |
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(noun) a sudden drop from an upright position; "he had a nasty spill on the ice" |
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Synonyms: spill, tumble |
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Related Words: slip, trip |
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(verb) fall from clouds; "rain, snow and sleet were falling" |
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Synonyms: come down, precipitate |
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Related Words: hail, rain, rain down, sleet, snow, spat |
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(noun) a downward slope |
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Synonyms: decline, declivity, descent, downslope |
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Related Words: downhill, incline, side, slope, steep |
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(verb) decrease in size, extent, or range; "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fall to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper" |
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Synonyms: decrease, diminish, lessen |
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Related Words: abate, boil down, break, change magnitude, concentrate, contract, decline, decoct, decrescendo, deflate, depreciate, devaluate, devalue, die away, drop off, dwindle, dwindle away, dwindle down, ease off, ease up, flag, fly, go down, let up, reduce, shorten, shrink, shrivel, shrivel up, slack, slack off, slacken off, taper, thin out, undervalue, vanish, wane, wither |
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(noun) the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night" |
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Synonyms: dusk, evenfall, gloaming, nightfall, twilight |
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Related Words: hour, night, time of day |
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