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Definitions of fall:

• noun:   a lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity

  Example: "A fall from virtue"

• noun:   a movement downward

  Example: "The rise and fall of the tides"

• noun:   a sudden decline in strength or number or importance

  Example: "The fall of the House of Hapsburg"

• noun:   when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat
• noun:   the lapse of mankind into sinfulness because of the sin of Adam and Eve

  Example: "Women have been blamed ever since the Fall"

• noun:   the season when the leaves fall from the trees

  Example: "In the fall of 1973"

• noun:   the act of surrendering (under agreed conditions)
• noun:   a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity
• noun:   a sudden drop from an upright position
• noun:   a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity

  Example: "When that became known the price of their stock went into free fall"

• noun:   a downward slope or bend
• noun:   the time of day immediately following sunset

  Example: "They finished before the fall of night"

• verb:   slope downward

  Example: "The hills around here fall towards the ocean"

• verb:   move in a specified direction

  Example: "The line of men fall forward"

• verb:   be inherited by
• verb:   fall to somebody by assignment or lot
• verb:   be captured
• verb:   to be given by assignment or distribution
• verb:   to be given by right or inheritance
• verb:   lose office or power
• verb:   suffer defeat, failure, or ruin

  Example: "We must stand or fall"

• verb:   yield to temptation or sin
• verb:   lose one's chastity

  Example: "A fallen woman"

• verb:   touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly
• verb:   die, as in battle or in a hunt

  Example: "Several deer have fallen to the same gun"

• verb:   be due

  Example: "Payments fall on the 1st of the month"

• verb:   come under, be classified or included

  Example: "Fall into a category"

• verb:   come as if by falling
• verb:   go as if by falling
• verb:   occur at a specified time or place

  Example: "Christmas falls on a Monday this year"

• verb:   begin vigorously
• verb:   be born, used chiefly of lambs
• verb:   come out; issue
• verb:   be cast down
• verb:   assume a disappointed or sad expression
• verb:   pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind

  Example: "Fall into a trap"

• verb:   descend in free fall under the influence of gravity
• verb:   drop oneself to a lower or less erect position
• verb:   lose an upright position suddenly
• verb:   come into the possession of
• verb:   fall or flow in a certain way
• verb:   move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way

  Example: "The barometer is falling"

• verb:   fall from clouds

  Example: "Rain, snow and sleet were falling"

• verb:   decrease in size, extent, or range

  Example: "Her weight fall to under a hundred pounds"

• name:  A surname (rare: 1 in 100000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #8301)