Fall synonyms
Category:
Part of speech:
The act of falling; descent:
(Informal) An utter failure.
The act of collapsing; a falling in or together; failure or breakdown, as in business or health
A downward slope; a declivity:
To go, move, pass, etc. smoothly, quickly, or easily
Depreciate is defined as to decline in value over a period of time, or to reduce the value of assets in accounting records.
take a header
To pass quickly downward
To produce a return for effort or investment:
The state of being abased or humbled; humiliation. [Mid 16th century]
A diminishing or being diminished; lessening; decrease
To walk,move or stand unsteadily or falteringly; threatening to fall.
To move or walk:
To decrease or diminish:
The definition of abate means to become less or lower in amount or force than at a prior time.
Or (intransitive) To enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc.
To surrender is defined as to give up control of something or to give something up to another.
(Intransitive) To yield to an overpowering force or overwhelming desire.
be destroyed
To be overthrown
be taken
To be overthrown
pass into enemy hands
To be overthrown
To force (an object) into a curved or crooked form, or (back) to its original form, by turning, pulling, pressing, etc.
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To give up (a position, for example), especially by formal notification.
To give up (to an enemy) on prearranged conditions; surrender conditionally
(Idiomatic) To take a less aggressive position in a conflict than one previously has or has planned to.
To overthrow
To break or separate into pieces.
get one's come-uppance
To be overthrown
fall-to-pieces
(Idiomatic) To feel emotionally devastated; to break down.
To fall, sink, or collapse, esp. suddenly or heavily
To happen to:
To get to be; become
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rise (antonym)
The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.
elevation (antonym)
The height to which something is elevated above a point of reference, especially mean sea level:
The act of spilling.
An act of falling down.
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The act of something being lowered.
The result of reducing:
The act of defeating an opponent:
The act of reducing in rank, character, or reputation, or of abasing; a lowering from one's standing or rank in office or society; diminution; as, the degradation of a peer, a knight, a general, or a bishop.
A humiliating condition or circumstance.
Hereditary derivation; lineage:
The act or an instance of plunging:
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A period of decline or diminution:
(Law) The reduction of the proceeds of a will, when the debts have not yet been satisfied; the reduction of taxes due.[First attested around 1150 to 1350.]
The act or process of sinking.
The definition of a dive is a headfirst jump, a quick drop, or a cheap or run-down place.
The act of falling
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The act of surrendering or giving up:
(Uncountable) Something that leads to serious trouble or destruction.
(Christian Theol.) The sinful state of mankind, originating in the Fall and inherited from Adam as progenitor of the human race
A falling away from one's belief or faith
The quantity of water, expressed in inches, precipitated as rain, snow, hail, or sleet in a specified area and time interval.
An instance of falling of snow.
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(Meteorology) Any or all of the forms of water particles, whether liquid or solid, that fall from the atmosphere (e.g., rain, hail, snow or sleet). It is a major class of hydrometeor, but it is distinguished from cloud, fog, dew, rime, frost, etc., in that it must fall. It is distinguished from cloud and virga in that it must reach the ground.
A mass or accumulation of fallen snow
Something that falls with the force and quantity of a shower of ice and hard snow:
Anything that covers
one or two or three
That which falls
That which falls
inches of snow or rain
That which falls
A period of maturity verging on decline.
harvest-time
The time of year during which which harvest occurs.
the sere and yellow leaf
The season after summer
the fall of the year
The season after summer
The ninth month of the year, having 30 days
The tenth month of the year, having 31 days
The letter N in the ICAO spelling alphabet.
""when the frost is on the punkin' and the fodder's in the shock.''
The season after summer
The definition of a cascade is a waterfall over a steep and rocky area or anything that resembles a waterfall.
A flood of water
A waterfall or rapid.
To appear to move downward, as the sun or moon in setting.
To walk or go in an unsteady or awkward manner, as from age, weakness, etc.
Trip is defined as to catch your foot or someone else's on something and stumble or fall, or to make a mistake or to catch someone else in a mistake.
fall down
To collapse.
To fall off or decline precipitously
(Intransitive) To come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation or by transmission; to fall or pass by inheritance.
To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of
Alternative spelling of cave in.
To subside is to lessen, to become inactive or to sink to lower levels.
To collapse:
(Intransitive) To sink to the bottom; to fall to the bottom, as dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reservoir.
To bend or hang downward:
To attach to a wall:
To revert to bad habits or lapse in religious practice.
To pass quickly downward
To fall or plunge headlong
To move in response to the force of gravity.
come down suddenly
To pass quickly downward
take-a-dive
(Idiomatic) To lose or fail intentionally.
take a nose dive
To pass quickly downward
be precipitated
To pass quickly downward
make a forced landing
To pass quickly downward
To pass quickly downward
fall-over
(Intransitive, idiomatic, informal, computing) Of a computer program or system, to crash.
To defer is defined as to delay something until later or to give into someone else.
A departure from the accepted moral code; transgression; wrongdoing; sin
The definition of sleet is a form of precipitation that is halfway between rain and snow and that consists of ice pellets, or a thin coating of ice that forms on the ground when there is freezing rain.
ascend (antonym)
The definition of ascend is defined as to move upward.
prevail (antonym)
To produce or achieve the desired effect; be effective; succeed
endure (antonym)
To carry on through, despite hardships; undergo or suffer:
resist (antonym)
Resist is defined as to fend off, oppose or work against.
destruction (related)
Destruction is defined as the tearing down or dismantling or killing of something.
sin (related)
(Theology) Deliberate disobedience to the known will of God.
waterfall (related)
(Technical, computing, slang) Waterfall model
die (related)
Die is defined as to stop living, existing or fade away.
happen (related)
To come about as a consequence; result:
Lacking climax, disappointing or ironically insignificant following of impressive foreshadowing.
Shedding or losing foliage at the end of the growing season:
Very sudden, unexpected, or abrupt
Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate:
A decline viewed in disappointing contrast with a previous rise:
(Military) A chant that is sung by military personnel while running or marching; a jody call.
A decline in the value of an asset over time, due to its increasing obsolescence or the wear and tear due to its use; a deduction on an income tax return of part of the asset’s cost, transforming its declining value into a benefit for the taxpayer.
The act of expelling or letting go
disemboguement
The act of disemboguing; discharge.
The falling down or slipping out of place of an organ or part, such as the uterus.
The act or condition of prostrating (lying flat) oneself, as a sign of humility.
Abnormal lowering or drooping of an organ or a part, especially a drooping of the upper eyelid caused by muscle weakness or paralysis.
A systematic attempt to overthrow a government by working from within; undermining.
To become an apostate
(Slang) To find temporary lodging or shelter, as for the night.
To cause an organic compound to undergo degradation.
To press down; push or pull down; lower
To cause disappointment
disembogue
To flow out or empty, as water from a channel:
do wrong
To die in battle
(Intransitive, usually with with) To have a superabundance of valuable things.
To unburden or discharge (oneself or itself)
To fail is defined as to be unsuccessful at something, to not do something you should, or to tell someone they were unsuccessful at something.
Founder means when a ship fills with water and sinks.
goastray
To die in battle
To fall down; sprawl.
To be nice to someone or apologize in the hope of securing something.
To become less extreme, intense, or violent; abate.
To be found; exist
To perish is to suffer death, ruin or destruction.
To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane; as, a line or cable supported by its ends sags, though tightly drawn; the floor of a room sags; hence, to lean, give way, or settle from a vertical position; as, a building may sag one way or another; a door sags on its hinges.
To sit or lie with the body and limbs spread out awkwardly.
To leave, arrive, or occur at irregular intervals
advance (antonym)
To assign a later date to (a past event)
attain (antonym)
To reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at.
reach (antonym)
(Informal) To grasp and hand over to another:
win (antonym)
To receive as a prize or reward for performance:
go up (antonym)
(Intransitive, UK) To attend university.
scale (antonym)
To climb; ascend.
To drop suddenly before climbing. Used of an aircraft.
To abate, lessen, lower, etc.
To become or cause to become less active or intense
Into a low or dejected emotional condition
So as to be less, smaller, fewer, etc.
or out)
To become or cause to become less active or intense
To reduce the difficulty of (something).
To refer (something) for deliberation, judgment, etc. (to a particular body or person).
To make or become less vigorous, intense, or severe; ease:
To be unproductive; to not perform one's duties.
To slide sideways while moving because of loss of traction:
To pass on or delegate to another:
To convey property to an heir or heirs:
Any disastrous or decisive defeat
A downward course; a decline:
The downward part of a swing, as of a golf club
A downward trend, esp. a financial one
A downward trend, as in business activity
A noticeable decrease:
(Geology) A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure.
take a fall (or header) (or plunge) (or spill) (or tumble)
take a sudden downtrend (or downturn)
go bad (or wrong)
increase (related)
To cause to become greater in size, amount, degree, etc.; add to; augment
right (related)
Right means correctly, completely, thoroughly or exactly.
thrive (related)
A disastrous overwhelming defeat or ruin
An ornament, badge, or emblem having a pin or clasp with which it is fastened to the clothing
A sloping or bending downward.
A falling off or away; decline; deterioration
A downward slope.
The time of the day when the sun is just below the horizon, especially the period between sunset and dark.
The darker stage of twilight, especially in the evening.
The time in the evening when daylight is last visible; dusk
The beginning of evening; twilight.
(Now rare) Twilight.
Alternative form of crepuscule.
To decrease.
To start to burn; be ignited or kindled:
To accumulate periodically as an increase
To direct the light of
(Dated) To break forth; to commence suddenly; with into.
creep (related)
disappear (related)
drift (related)
stagger (related)
shot-up (related)
soar (related)
sweep (related)
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