Etymology : Middle English, from Old English feallan; akin to Old High German fallan to fall and perhaps to Lithuanian pulti
Pronunciation : 'fol
Function : verb
Date : before 12th century
1. dropped; flattened, leveled; deceased, dead (especially in war); abandoned; conquered; fallen from grace. jaw-fallen.
2. Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead. killed in battle; "to honor fallen soldiers" having lost your chastity; "a fallen woman" having fallen in or collapsed; "a fallen building" having dropped by the force of gravity; "fallen leaves covered the forest floor"; "sat on a fallen tree trunk".
3. To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; the mercury falls in the barometer.
4. To cease to be erect; to take suddenly a recumbent posture; to become prostrate; to drop; as, a child totters and falls; a tree falls; a worshiper falls on his knees.
5. To find a final outlet; to discharge its waters; to empty; with into; as, the river Rhone falls into the Mediterranean.
6. To become prostrate and dead; to die; especially, to die by violence, as in battle.
7. To cease to be active or strong; to die away; to lose strength; to subside; to become less intense; as, the wind falls.
8. To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; said of the young of certain animals.
9. To decline in power, glory, wealth, or importance; to become insignificant; to lose rank or position; to decline in weight, value, price etc.; to become less; as, the price falls; stocks fell two points.
10. To be overthrown or captured; to be destroyed.
11. To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin; to depart from the faith; to apostatize; to sin.
12. To become insnared or embarrassed; to be entrapped; to be worse off than before; as, to fall into error; to fall into difficulties.
13. To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the countenance.
14. To sink; to languish; to become feeble or faint; as, our spirits rise and fall with our fortunes.
15. To pass somewhat suddenly, and passively, into a new state of body or mind; to become; as, to fall asleep; to fall into a passion; to fall in love; to fall into temptation.
16. To happen; to to come to pass; to light; to befall; to issue; to terminate.
17. To let fall; to drop.
18. To sink; to depress; as, to fall the voice.
19. To diminish; to lessen or lower.
20. To bring forth; as, to fall lambs.
21. To fell; to cut down; as, to fall a tree.
22. The act of falling; a dropping or descending be the force of gravity; descent; as, a fall from a horse, or from the yard of ship.
23. The act of dropping or tumbling from an erect posture; as, he was walking on ice, and had a fall.
24. Death; destruction; overthrow; ruin.
25. Downfall; degradation; loss of greatness or office; termination of greatness, power, or dominion; ruin; overthrow; as, the fall of the Roman empire.
26. The surrender of a besieged fortress or town ; as, the fall of Sebastopol.
27. Diminution or decrease in price or value; depreciation; as, the fall of prices; the fall of rents.
28. A sinking of tone; cadence; as, the fall of the voice at the close of a sentence.
29. Declivity; the descent of land or a hill; a slope.
30. Descent of water; a cascade; a cataract; a rush of water down a precipice or steep; usually in the plural, sometimes in the singular; as, the falls of Niagara.
31. The discharge of a river or current of water into the ocean, or into a lake or pond; as, the fall of the Po into the Gulf of Venice.
32. Extent of descent; the distance which anything falls; as, the water of a stream has a fall of five feet.
33. The season when leaves fall from trees; autumn.
34. That which falls; a falling; as, a fall of rain; a heavy fall of snow.
35. The act of felling or cutting down.
36. Lapse or declension from innocence or goodness.
37. Specifically: The first apostasy; the act of our first parents in eating the forbidden fruit; also, the apostasy of the rebellious angels.
38. Formerly, a kind of ruff or band for the neck; a falling band; a faule.
39. That part of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting. a lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity; "a fall from virtue" a movement downward; "the rise and fall of the tides" a sudden decline in strength or number or importance; "the fall of the House of Hapsburg" when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat the lapse of mankind into sinfulness because of the sin of Adam and Eve; "women have been blamed ever since the Fall" the season when the leaves fall from the trees; "in the fall of 1973" 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"; "fall asleep"; "fall prey to an imposter"; "fall into a strange way of thinking"; "she fell to pieces after she lost her work" come as if by falling; "Night fell"; "Silence fell" go as if by falling; "Grief fell from our hearts" occur at a specified time or place; "Christmas falls on a Monday this year"; "The accent falls on the first syllable" begin vigorously; "The prisoners fell to work right away" be born, used chiefly of lambs; "The lambs fell in the afternoon" come out; issue; "silly phrases fell from her mouth" be cast down; "his eyes fell" assume a disappointed or sad expression; "Her face fell when she heard that she would be laid off"; "his crest fell" descend in free fall under the influence of gravity; "The branch fell from the tree"; "The unfortunate hiker fell into a crevasse" drop oneself to a lower or less erect position; "She fell back in her chair"; "He fell to his knees" lose an upright position suddenly; "The vase fell over and the water spilled onto the table"; "Her hair fell across her forehead" slope downward; "The hills around here fall towards the ocean" move in a specified direction; "The line of men fall forward" 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" fall to somebody by assignment or lot; "The task fell to me"; "It fell to me to notify the parents of the victims" be captured; "The cities fell to the enemy" to be given by assignment or distribution; "The most difficult task fell on the youngest member of the team"; "The onus fell on us"; "The pressure to succeed fell on the yougest student" to be given by right or inheritance; "The estate fell to the oldest daughter" lose office or power; "The government fell overnight"; "The Qing Dynasty fell with Sun Yat-sen" suffer defeat, failure, or ruin; "We must stand or fall"; "fall by the wayside" yield to temptation or sin; "Adam and Eve fell" lose one's chastity; "a fallen woman" touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly; "Light fell on her face"; "The sun shone on the fields"; "The light struck the golden necklace"; "A strange sound struck my ears" die, as in battle or in a hunt; "Many soldiers fell at Verdun"; "Several deer have fallen to the same gun"; "The shooting victim fell dead" be due; "payments fall on the 1st of the month" come under, be classified or included; "fall into a category"; "This comes under a new heading".
40. 1. Fallen is the past participle of fall.
41. The fallen are soldiers who have died in battle. Work began on establishing the cemeteries as permanent memorials to the fallen. = dead see also:
fall. the past participle of fall.
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