to fall
- verb
- /fɔl/
- After years of conflict, the government finally fell, leaving the country in turmoil.
- government fell
- regime fell
- country fell
Yes, the Roman Empire never fell and they have spaceships and stuff.
- Yes, the Roman Empire never fell and they have spaceships and stuff.
- A much larger city was possibly about to fall as well, but to revolution.
- I I like what you talked about how we're all falling to our deaths slowly.
- You when when the Soviet Union fell, ethnic tensions arose again.
- If the town were to fall, the Boers might just win the war.
- They had a microbiome and we rose and fell together.
- And then when when the Soviet Union fell, that all went away.
- And the expectation was that Kiev would fall and the Ukrainians would would fold.
- We've seen lots of people fall and burn and try and rebuild.
- In world history, On the contrary, fell to pieces.
Examples
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As pro-U.S. Arab regimes stumble and fall, Washington's influence in the Middle East is on the decline.
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Thus the great Inca Empire fell even faster than it had risen.
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And the Congress party government fell because of that.
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Charles the First knew that if York fell, the North would fall.
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A much larger city was possibly about to fall as well, but to revolution.
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I'd hate to see the place fall into the wrong hands.
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Nobody wanted to see the Incas fall, Not central, not South Americans.
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In the decade after the Soviet Union fell, there was no need to rethink this understanding.
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The prospect that Afghanistan could fall back into the hands of the Taliban was never greater.
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The modern era started in 1453 when Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks.
Academic text (2017)
Synonyms
To fall suddenly in price or value
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
To accept what happens and not try to change the result
- Informal
To fail completely and feel embarrassed in front of others
Children often look and behave like their parents
- Informal
To react strongly because something is very funny or surprising
- Vulgar
To lose your balance and land on your backside in an awkward or embarrassing way
- Informal
Suddenly fail completely because it is weak or badly built
- Formal
To die as a Christian who trusts in God and expects life after death
To keep trying after many failures no matter how often you fail
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- Literature
An event in the Bible when Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, lost their innocence, and left the Garden
- Specialized
A green or brown caterpillar with white stripes that eats tree leaves in autumn
A small European plant with yellow flowers that blooms in the fall and is now common in North America
- US
The time when day and night are almost the same length, marking the start of autumn in the Northern Hemisphere
- Literature
A Christian belief that people lose their innocence when they disobey God
- Specialized
A caterpillar that lives in large silk nests on tree branches and eats the leaves in late summer and fall
A bush that loses its leaves and has large cone-shaped flowers in fall
How Defeated
Surface Forms
Etymology
The verb fall for losing power or being defeated comes from the image of a person or state falling down, from old English feallan 'to fall'. That's why we say a ruler or regime 'fell' when it lost power.