Crossword-Solution: FALL
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| Fall | v. t. | 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. |
| Fall | v. t. | 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. |
| Fall | v. t. | To find a final outlet; to discharge its waters; to empty; -- with into; as, the river Rhone falls into the Mediterranean. |
| Fall | v. t. | To become prostrate and dead; to die; especially, to die by violence, as in battle. |
| Fall | v. t. | To cease to be active or strong; to die away; to lose strength; to subside; to become less intense; as, the wind falls. |
| Fall | v. t. | To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; -- said of the young of certain animals. |
| Fall | v. t. | 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. |
| Fall | v. t. | To be overthrown or captured; to be destroyed. |
| Fall | v. t. | 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. |
| Fall | v. t. | To become insnared or embarrassed; to be entrapped; to be worse off than before; asm to fall into error; to fall into difficulties. |
| Fall | v. t. | To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; -- said of the countenance. |
| Fall | v. t. | To sink; to languish; to become feeble or faint; as, our spirits rise and fall with our fortunes. |
| Fall | v. t. | 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. |
| Fall | v. t. | To happen; to to come to pass; to light; to befall; to issue; to terminate. |
| Fall | v. t. | To come; to occur; to arrive. |
| Fall | v. t. | To begin with haste, ardor, or vehemence; to rush or hurry; as, they fell to blows. |
| Fall | v. t. | 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. |
| Fall | v. t. | To belong or appertain. |
| Fall | v. t. | To be dropped or uttered carelessly; as, an unguarded expression fell from his lips; not a murmur fell from him. |
| Fall | v. t. | To let fall; to drop. |
| Fall | v. t. | To sink; to depress; as, to fall the voice. |
| Fall | v. t. | To diminish; to lessen or lower. |
| Fall | v. t. | To bring forth; as, to fall lambs. |
| Fall | v. t. | To fell; to cut down; as, to fall a tree. |
| Fall | n. | 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. |
| Fall | n. | The act of dropping or tumbling from an erect posture; as, he was walking on ice, and had a fall. |
| Fall | n. | Death; destruction; overthrow; ruin. |
| Fall | n. | Downfall; degradation; loss of greatness or office; termination of greatness, power, or dominion; ruin; overthrow; as, the fall of the Roman empire. |
| Fall | n. | The surrender of a besieged fortress or town ; as, the fall of Sebastopol. |
| Fall | n. | Diminution or decrease in price or value; depreciation; as, the fall of prices; the fall of rents. |
| Fall | n. | A sinking of tone; cadence; as, the fall of the voice at the close of a sentence. |
| Fall | n. | Declivity; the descent of land or a hill; a slope. |
| Fall | n. | 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. |
| Fall | n. | 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. |
| Fall | n. | Extent of descent; the distance which anything falls; as, the water of a stream has a fall of five feet. |
| Fall | n. | The season when leaves fall from trees; autumn. |
| Fall | n. | That which falls; a falling; as, a fall of rain; a heavy fall of snow. |
| Fall | n. | The act of felling or cutting down. |
| Fall | n. | 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. |
| Fall | n. | Formerly, a kind of ruff or band for the neck; a falling band; a faule. |
| Fall | n. | That part (as one of the ropes) of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| FALL | anagram | LFAL |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
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Sentences with FALL (5)
You see we have no female companionship.” “Are none of the others girls?” “Oh, no; girls, you know, are much too clever to fall out of their prams.” This flattered Wendy immensely.
With him dwelt his dark-eyed daughter, Wayward as the Minnehaha, With her moods of shade and sunshine, Eyes that smiled and frowned alternate, Feet as rapid as the river, Tresses flowing like the water, And as musical a laughter: And he named her from the river, From the water-fall he named her, Minnehaha, Laughing Water.
Fall’n Cherube, to be weak is miserable Doing or Suffering: but of this be sure, To do ought good never will be our task, But ever to do ill our sole delight, As being the contrary to his high will Whom we resist.
The Frogs were terrified at the splash occasioned by its fall and hid themselves in the depths of the pool.
They seldom come nearer to it than planting-time, harvest-time, cherry-time, spring-time, or fall-time.
Quotes with FALL (3)
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 234 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).