1. Descend in free fall under the influence of gravity
   "The branch fell from the tree"; "The unfortunate hiker fell into a crevasse" 
2. Move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
   "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again"
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1. [N. Amer] The season when the leaves fall from the trees
   "in the fall of 1973"
   - autumn 
2. A sudden drop from an upright position
   - spill, tumble 
3. A downward slope or bend
   - descent, declivity, decline, declination, declension, downslope 
4. A lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity
   "a fall from virtue" 
5. A sudden decline in strength or number or importance
   "the fall of the House of Hapsburg"
   - downfall 
6. A movement downward
   "the rise and fall of the tides" 
7. The act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions)
   - capitulation, surrender 
8. The time of day immediately following sunset
   "they finished before the fall of night"
   - twilight, dusk, gloaming, gloam [archaic], nightfall, evenfall, crepuscule, crepuscle 
9. When a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat
   - pin 
10. A free and rapid descent by the force of gravity
    - drop 
11. A sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
    "when that became known the price of their stock went into free fall"
    - drop, dip, free fall

1. The lapse of mankind into sinfulness because of the sin of Adam and Eve
   "women have been blamed ever since the Fall"

Derived forms: Falls, falling, fell, falls, fallen

See also: break, come apart, crumble, dawdle, drop away, drop off, fall apart, fall away, fall back, fall behind, fall flat, fall for, fall in, fall through, faller, flop, founder, lag, lose, prelapsarian, recede, separate, slip, split up

Type of: be, be born, begin, buy the farm [N. Amer], cash in one's chips, change, change hands, change magnitude, change of location, change owners, change posture, change state, choke, come, come about, come forth, come out, commence, conk, croak, decease, decrease, decrement, descent, die, disappear, drop dead, egress, emerge, event, exit, expire, fail, fall out, get, get down, give-up the ghost, go, go away, go forth, go on, go wrong, gravitation, hap, happen, hour, incline, issue, kick the bucket, leave office, locomote, loss, miscarry, move, occur, pass, pass away, pass off, perish, pitch, pop off, pop one's clogs, quit, resign, season, set about, set out, side, sin, sinning, slip, slope, snuff it, start, start out, step down, take place, time of day, time of year, transgress, travel, trespass, trip, triumph, turn, vanish, victory, weakening, yield

Antonym: rise

Part of: eve, even, evening, eventide, wrestling match

Encyclopedia: Fall Fall, I Will Follow

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