How to pronounce fall in English

"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."

"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."

"To find a final outlet; to discharge its waters; to empty; -- with into; as the river Rhone falls into the Mediterranean."

"To become prostrate and dead; to die; especially to die by violence as in battle."

"To cease to be active or strong; to die away; to lose strength; to subside; to become less intense; as the wind falls."

"To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; -- said of the young of certain animals."

"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."

"To be overthrown or captured; to be destroyed."

"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."

"To become insnared or embarrassed; to be entrapped; to be worse off than before; asm to fall into error; to fall into difficulties."

"To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; -- said of the countenance."

"To sink; to languish; to become feeble or faint; as our spirits rise and fall with our fortunes."

"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."

"To happen; to to come to pass; to light; to befall; to issue; to terminate."

"To come; to occur; to arrive."

"To begin with haste ardor or vehemence; to rush or hurry; as they fell to blows."

"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."

"To belong or appertain."

"To be dropped or uttered carelessly; as an unguarded expression fell from his lips; not a murmur fell from him."

"To let fall; to drop."

"To sink; to depress; as to fall the voice."

"To diminish; to lessen or lower."

"To bring forth; as to fall lambs."

"To fell; to cut down; as to fall a tree."

"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."

"The act of dropping or tumbling from an erect posture; as he was walking on ice and had a fall."

"Death; destruction; overthrow; ruin."

"Downfall; degradation; loss of greatness or office; termination of greatness power or dominion; ruin; overthrow; as the fall of the Roman empire."

"The surrender of a besieged fortress or town ; as the fall of Sebastopol."

"Diminution or decrease in price or value; depreciation; as the fall of prices; the fall of rents."

"A sinking of tone; cadence; as the fall of the voice at the close of a sentence."

"Declivity; the descent of land or a hill; a slope."

"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."

"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."

"Extent of descent; the distance which anything falls; as the water of a stream has a fall of five feet."

"The season when leaves fall from trees; autumn."

"That which falls; a falling; as a fall of rain; a heavy fall of snow."

"The act of felling or cutting down."

"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."

"Formerly a kind of ruff or band for the neck; a falling band; a faule."

"That part (as one of the ropes) of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting."