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How to pronounce fall in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms come down, descend, go down
Type of locomote, go, move, travel
Has types precipitate, alight, avalanche, rappel, crash, correct, roll down, rope down, cascade, set, cascade down, climb down, settle, get down, get off, go down, unhorse, tumble, go under, topple, swoop, subside, dive, slump, dismount, abseil, sink, decline, pitch, plop, plunge, plunk, flop, pounce, prolapse, drop, drip, light


The barometer is falling.
Type Words
Synonyms capitulation, surrender
Type of loss
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Synonyms accrue
Type of change hands, change owners
Verb group return, devolve, pass, light
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Synonyms pin
Type of triumph, victory
Has types takedown
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Synonyms come down, precipitate
Has types sleet, hail, rain, rain down, snow, spat


rain, snow and sleet were falling.
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Synonyms fall down
Type of change posture
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Synonyms downfall
Type of weakening
Has types anticlimax


the fall of the House of Hapsburg.
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Synonyms flow, hang
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Synonyms light
Type of return, devolve, pass
Verb group accrue
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Synonyms dip, drop, free fall
Type of decrement, decrease
Has types voltage drop, correction


when that became known the price of their stock went into free fall.
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Synonyms drop
Type of gravitation, descent
Has types plunge, precipitation, free fall
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Synonyms shine, strike
Type of go on, pass off, pass, occur, take place, happen, hap, fall out, come about
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Synonyms decrease, diminish, lessen
Type of change magnitude
Has types break, shrink, shorten, slow down, slow up, wane, retard, slow, shrivel up, slack, slack off, abate, slacken off, reduce, de-escalate, decelerate, decline, decoct, decrescendo, deflate, depreciate, devaluate, devalue, weaken, die away, thin out, wither, let up, drop off, dwindle, dwindle away, dwindle down, ease off, ease up, go down, undervalue, vanish, vaporize, fly, flag, shrivel, boil down, taper, concentrate, contract, remit
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Synonyms descend, settle
Type of come
Type Words
Synonyms declension, declination, decline, declivity, descent, downslope
Type of side, incline, slope
Has types downhill, steep
Type Words
Synonyms autumn
Type of season, time of year


in the fall of 1973.
Type Words
Synonyms crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilight
Type of hour, time of day
Has types night


they finished before the fall of night.
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Synonyms spill, tumble
Type of slip, trip
Has types wipeout, pratfall
Type Words
Synonyms come
Type of be


fall into a category.
Type Words
Synonyms devolve, pass, return
Type of change hands, change owners
Has types light
Verb group accrue
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Type of sinning, sin


a fall from virtue.
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Type of change of location, travel


the rise and fall of the tides.
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Type of change
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Type of be born
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Type of yield
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Type of change
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Type of be


payments fall on the 1st of the month.
Type Words
Type of set about, set out, start out, commence, start, get down, get, begin
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Type of come forth, emerge, come out, go forth, issue, egress
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Type of move, locomote, travel, go
Verb group come down, precipitate
Derivation faller
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Type of snuff it, decease, choke, perish, go, buy the farm, give-up the ghost, pass away, cash in one's chips, exit, die, pass, expire, conk, kick the bucket, drop dead, croak, pop off


Several deer have fallen to the same gun.
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Type of change posture
Verb group fall down
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Type of disappear, go away, vanish
Verb group descend, settle
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Type of quit, resign, leave office, step down
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a fallen woman.
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Type of travel, locomote, go, move


The line of men fall forward.
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Type of fall out, come about, happen, pass off, occur, take place, pass, hap, go on


Christmas falls on a Monday this year.
The accent falls on the first syllable.
Type Words
Type of turn, change state
Has types drop, fall in love


fall into a trap.
fall asleep.
fall prey to an imposter.
fall into a strange way of thinking.
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Type of pitch, slope, incline


The hills around here fall towards the ocean.
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Type of fail, go wrong, miscarry


We must stand or fall.
fall by the wayside.
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Verb group light
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Type of transgress, sin, trespass

Examples of fall

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Her first shot to fall was from 3-point range and it gave the Saxons a 7-0 lead.
From the dailyherald.com
Are you guys simply covering all the angles or are we being set up for the fall?
From the stltoday.com
Hope not, because AMC has ordered a 13-episode Season 2, probably for next fall.
From the stltoday.com
Played in five games for Saint Louis University's women's soccer team last fall.
From the stltoday.com
Watching Pilate play football this fall has brought a lot of joy for the family.
From the thenewstribune.com
Let's all face the fact that our economy in the United States is in a free fall.
From the washingtontimes.com
While browning, your rosettes may voluntarily fall off of the iron into the oil.
From the sacbee.com
Water releases are timed with the corps'annual drawdown of the lake in the fall.
From the sacbee.com
I graduated in the fall of 2009 from the Personal Growth School of Hypnotherapy.
From the desmoinesregister.com
More examples
  • Descend in free fall under the influence of gravity; "The branch fell from the tree"; "The unfortunate hiker fell into a crevasse"
  • The season when the leaves fall from the trees; "in the fall of 1973"
  • Descend: move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way; "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again"
  • Spill: a sudden drop from an upright position; "he had a nasty spill on the ice"
  • Pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind; "fall into a trap"; "She fell ill"; "They fell out of favor"; "Fall in love"; "fall asleep"; "fall prey to an imposter"; "fall into a strange way of thinking"; "she fell to pieces after she lost her work"
  • The lapse of mankind into sinfulness because of the sin of Adam and Eve; "women have been blamed ever since the Fall"
  • Fall is the title of American country music singer Clay Walker's ninth album. It was released April 17, 2007, on Asylum-Curb Records. The album's first single was "'Fore She Was Mama", which reached #21 on the Hot Country Songs charts in mid-2007. ...
  • In astrology, the fall of a planet is the sign which is opposite that planet's sign of exaltation. Originally, in Greek, the sign of a planet's "fall" were called tapeinoma, which means "humbled" or "dejected" or "depressed, " whereas "exalted," in Greek was hyposoma, which means "risen in height.
  • Fall is the first EP released by Jon Foreman, frontman of the San Diego rock band Switchfoot. Foreman announced on his MySpace blog that the EP was initially to be released to iTunes and online at jonforeman.com and amazon.com on November 27, 2007. ...