Word Finder - fallen

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(heading) To be moved downwards.

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To move downwards.

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To happen, to change negatively.

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To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.

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And so it falls to me to make this important decision.  The estate fell to his brother; the kingdom fell into the hands of his rivals.

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To diminish; to lessen or lower.

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To bring forth.

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to fall lambs

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

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To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin.

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To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.

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to fall into error;  to fall into difficulties

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

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To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).

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To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.

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After arguing, they fell to blows.

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To be dropped or uttered carelessly.

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An unguarded expression fell from his lips.

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(of a fabric) To hang down (under the influence of gravity).

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An Empire-style dress has a high waistline – directly under the bust – from which the dress falls all the way to a hem as low as the floor.

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The dead.

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Casualties of battle or war.

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One who has fallen, as from grace.

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Having dropped by the force of gravity.

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fallen raindrops

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Killed in battle.

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to honor fallen soldiers

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Having lost one's chastity.

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a fallen woman

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Having collapsed.

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a fallen building

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Having lost prestige, (Christian) grace, etc.

She had fallen off a bluff.

Fallen for her, I guess.

She'd fallen asleep in Kris's library after half a bottle of whiskey and awoken in her own bed with a throbbing headache and dry mouth.

The cost of interactive information exchange, such as asking questions about products you are contemplating purchasing, has fallen to nearly zero.

I thought how strange it was that such precious seeds of truth and wisdom should have fallen among the tares of ignorance and corruption.

I guess I must have fallen asleep.

The bullet of your thought must have overcome its lateral and ricochet motion and fallen into its last and steady course before it reaches the ear of the hearer, else it may plow out again through the side of his head.

Her gaze fell on Tammy, who had fallen asleep on the couch.

You've already fallen once!

If Dulce hadn't chased him so hard, would he have fallen in love with her?

Her first day and she had fallen asleep on the job.

Elisabeth had fallen asleep with her head in Jackson's lap before they even took off.

The bare twigs in the garden were hung with transparent drops which fell on the freshly fallen leaves.

I sat her on a fallen log by side of the dirt track.

Dusk had fallen while she tested the magic and her ability to control it.

Katie almost smiled at his fallen face as the stern voice of the Amazonian-size woman before them.

Sarah had fallen in love with him in 1912.

He stooped and picked up a bird's nest that had fallen upon the ground.

She just rotated to the southwest on orders that neither you nor Jule nor I issued, and the Tucson sites have fallen like flies.

The sense of smell has fallen into disrepute, and a deaf person is reluctant to speak of it.

From the back porch came the sound of feet descending the steps, the bottom step upon which snow had fallen gave a ringing creak and he heard the voice of an old maidservant saying, Straight, straight, along the path, Miss.

Martha exclaimed when I told her Julie had entered the million dollar hunt for Howie and her letter might have fallen into the wrong hands.

I said a silent prayer the young lady hadn't fallen into the hands of someone like our stalker.

She was on her way back to her room with the scarf securely wrapped around her neck and the whiskey that had fallen mercifully into an outside trash bin without busting when she felt the change in temperature.

The walls were all on fire and the back wall had fallen in, the wooden roof was collapsing, and the rafters were alight.

This was a dream; she'd fallen asleep on the train and not yet woken up.

He might have just fallen, luckily closer to the bottom than the top, or he'd be a dead man.

The others might be below, but Shipton would attempt the same climb where he had fallen two weeks before.

No White God has fallen in the history of our worlds.

Cyprian, although inspired by lofty notions of the prerogatives of the church, and inclined to severity of opinion towards heretics, and especially heretical dissentients from the belief in the divine authorship of the episcopal order and the unity of Christendom, was leniently disposed towards those who had temporarily fallen from the faith.

In 1803 he was in command of the "Enterprise," which formed part of Commodore Preble's squadron in the Mediterranean, and in February 1804 led a daring expedition into the harbour of Tripoli for the purpose of burning the U.S. frigate "Philadelphia" which had fallen into Tripolitan hands.

There was a grammar school at Midhurst, which at one time had enjoyed considerable reputation, but which had fallen into decay.

Having fallen into the line of carriages, the Rostovs' carriage drove up to the theater, its wheels squeaking over the snow.

If Bordeaux hadn't caught her, she would have fallen.

Toby chattered, his tone lifting in a question that didn't penetrate the in-between world in which she'd fallen.

My beautiful bride labored to the end, administrating to the fallen and the flu stricken souls of our town until she too, fell to the scourge of this most dreaded disease.

She must have fallen on hard times to have been forced into the life she ended up leading.

There was a lingering smell of wood smoke in the night air and all earlier efforts at shoveling the walkway and stairs were lost in the smooth swirls of new fallen whiteness.

He left Bird Song, telling Janet where he was going and together with Fred, hiked up to the ice park to where Shipton had fallen.

Either Jerome Shipton would have seen the cut and not used the rope, or he would have fallen so far he'd be whispering to Lucifer, not Jake Weller.

And, if she had cut the line earlier, it would have either been noticed by Shipton or he would have fallen the entire distance of more than a hundred feet from the edge to his certain death.

She continued to take notes, as if Dean's scolding had fallen on deaf ears.

When the stopping jolt came, it nearly knocked the wind out of him with its abruptness, but he'd fallen only to the level of Shipton's knees.

Shipton, sensing now that Dean had not simply fallen, began to work at the ring on his harness where his line was secured.

Dean remembered the Ride the Rockies bike tour, when he had fallen, nearly killing himself, but put his bruised and cut body back on a bike, just to finish.

Nearly all the leaves had fallen off the trees except for the huge scarlet oak in the back yard.

Jackson thought she had fallen asleep when she said, "Thank you for not saying I told you so."

Arnie Smith had fallen off the deep end soon after arriving to the Peak.

Everything—the net call that brought her to the Peak, the encrypted messages she'd read, Brady's protection—had fallen into place.

Katie started in the direction of the woman's voice.  She stumbled over fallen, slick wood and brambles she couldn't see.  Whatever magic that had cleared a path for her was gone.  She struggled through the jungle before calling out, "Can you hear me?  I can't see much.  You'll have to say something, so I can find you."