fall
- noun
- /fɔl/
- Literature
- The devil who steals Sancho's donkey parodies Don Quixote and his fall from Rosinante.
- fall from grace
- the fall of man
Let them have their fall and then you can maybe talk them through it if you want.
- Let them have their fall and then you can maybe talk them through it if you want.
Examples
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How else are we to explain our fall from grace?
Fiction book (1990) -
Furthermore, the weakness caused by the fall induces personal sin, something from which no one is exempt.
Academic text (1992) -
And evil is sort of a fall from higher being to lower being.
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Not even six months since her fall, but it felt like years.
Fiction book (1996) -
My own fall from grace was not as abrupt as either of my siblings.
Fiction book (2002) -
The effect of Karim's fall on him is primarily spiritual and psychological.
Academic text (1997) -
However, the fall of the empire left Balumil isolated for five millennia.
Fiction book (1999) -
His unexpected fall from grace shocked everyone who knew him as a moral leader.
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The tale of her fall serves as a cautionary reminder about the dangers of ambition.
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After years of dedication, his sudden fall from esteemed company left many wondering what went wrong.
Synonyms
A loss of status and respect after wrongdoing
A state of having lost moral or spiritual goodness
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
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 Serious
Surface Forms
Etymology
The noun fall for a lapse into wrongdoing comes from the same idea of falling from a better state, from old English feallan 'to fall'. So a 'fall' is a loss of innocence or moral failure.