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Definition of fall : 1. A sinking of tone; cadence; as, the fall of the voice at the close of a sentence.
2. Death; destruction; overthrow; ruin.
3. Declivity; the descent of land or a hill; a slope.
4. 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.
5. Diminution or decrease in price or value; depreciation; as, the fall of prices; the fall of rents.
6. Downfall; degradation; loss of greatness or office; termination of greatness, power, or dominion; ruin; overthrow; as, the fall of the Roman empire.
7. Extent of descent; the distance which anything falls; as, the water of a stream has a fall of five feet.
8. Formerly, a kind of ruff or band for the neck; a falling band; a faule.
9. Lapse or declension from innocence or goodness. Specifically: The first apostasy; the act of our first parents in eating the forbidden fruit; also, the apostasy of the rebellious angels.
10. That part ( as one of the ropes) of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting.
11. That which falls; a falling; as, a fall of rain; a heavy fall of snow.
12. The act of dropping or tumbling from an erect posture; as, he was walking on ice, and had a fall.
13. 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.
14. The act of felling or cutting down.
15. 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.
16. The season when leaves fall from trees; autumn.
17. The surrender of a besieged fortress or town ; as, the fall of Sebastopol.
18. To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; - said of the countenance.
19. To be dropped or uttered carelessly; as, an unguarded expression fell from his lips; not a murmur fell from him.
20. To be overthrown or captured; to be destroyed.
21. To become insnared or embarrassed; to be entrapped; to be worse off than before; asm to fall into error; to fall into difficulties.
22. To become prostrate and dead; to die; especially, to die by violence, as in battle.
23. To begin with haste, ardor, or vehemence; to rush or hurry; as, they fell to blows.
24. To belong or appertain.
25. To bring forth; as, to fall lambs.
26. To cease to be active or strong; to die away; to lose strength; to subside; to become less intense; as, the wind falls.
27. 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.
28. To come; to occur; to arrive.
29. 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 falls; stocks fell two points.
30. 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.
31. 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.
32. To diminish; to lessen or lower.
33. To fell; to cut down; as, to fall a tree.
34. To find a final outlet; to discharge its waters; to empty; - with into; as, the river Rhone falls into the Mediterranean.
35. To happen; to to come to pass; to light; to befall; to issue; to terminate.
36. To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; - said of the young of certain animals.
37. To let fall; to drop.
38. To pass or be transferred by chance, lot, distribution, inheritance, or otherwise; as, the estate fell to his brother; the kingdom fell into the hands of his rivals.
39. 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.
40. To sink; to depress; as, to fall the voice.
41. To sink; to languish; to become feeble or faint; as, our spirits rise and fall with our fortunes.

Synonyms:

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suspend, dismiss, focus, deteriorate, fail of success, dusk, hanging, bight, exceed, giving up, branch, cut, square off, menstruate, blanket, transgression, fall out, make up, transcend, slip by, cling, pension off, hand, feed, give-up the ghost, pry, shrink, retire, smoothen, slide by, worsening, accrue, authorize, bat mitzvah, pick out, harvest, dec, walk out, turn back, rain, render, declivity, lessen, decadence, spillage, determine, break, curl up, conk, diminution, pronunciation, articulation, gloaming, driblet, risk, parentage, rejoin, pratfall, collide with, reduction, pink slip, resist, go down, stutter, line of descent, belittle, articulate, run, suffocate, cash in one's chips, sicken, election, crepuscle, error, lay down your life, filter, nightfall, pronounce, go on, come back, chance, diminish, branch off, illumine, British Summer Time, October, revenge, make out, come up, ignite, get, corner, fade, hang out, subjugate, condescend, set, downhill, beam, droop, run into, 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chances, sleet, pin, clear, September, buy the farm, subside, slip away, dairy, go into, tilt, magnetic inclination, waver, fall upon, pivot, occur, bar mitzvah, diction, unlock, patch up, chute, string, adjudicate, twilight, abate, elapse, thole, attain, attend, arrive, fire up, root, precipitation, breakdown, polish, crack something open, rake, rainfall, crash, the Fall, landing, the Ark of the Covenant, go, come across, lift, nail down, amount, finalise, come, carry, campaign, dent, pedigree, bare-knuckle, line, storm, cuddle up, breathe your last (breath), autumn, partnership, ascend, light up, diminishment, demolition, bout, down, riposte, stick, diverge, crepuscule, go past, dismount, chemistry, degeneracy, go under, hammering, evanesce, recession, light, steady down, starve, tend, chance upon, shift, give ear, roll/trip/slip off the tongue, ease out, spot, supervene, backwater, follow, travel by, enunciate, come to pass, magnetic dip, channel, give, croak, shine, blow over, blood, draw, ancestry, wasteweir, skid, wane, boxing, bed, illume, drubbing, hit, discharge, string up, degradation, make it, fall off, celestial latitude, advance poll, declension, diagonal, pearl, total, gleam, waterfall, ensconce, autumnal, course, ebb, free fall, falloff, give someone notice, win

drop, decline, plunge, lower, sink, settle, topple, slide, descend, fall down, slip, tumble, come down, plummet, slump

descent, comedown, slope, grade

destruction, defeat, overthrow

end, perish, cease, expire, part, depart, succumb, die, pass on, pass, pass away, decease

pitch, dive, swoop

fail, flounder, blunder, stumble, flop, collapse, bust, lose, falter, flunk

Usage examples:

• It's a pity you didn't fall in love with her. - "The Duke's Children", Anthony Trollope.
• Then she would come in the fall and remain. - "A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia", Amanda Minnie Douglas.
• Have you lost anything in your fall? - "The Professor's Mystery", Wells Hastings Brian Hooker.