Word Finder - falling

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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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Present participle of fall

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That falls or fall.

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a falling leaf

When Dorothy recovered her senses they were still falling, but not so fast.

She stood with her slender arms hanging down, her scarcely defined bosom rising and falling regularly, and with bated breath and glittering, frightened eyes gazed straight before her, evidently prepared for the height of joy or misery.

You're falling for him.

She leaped from her bed, the book falling to the floor unnoticed.

But her thoughts were falling under the control of something else.

I believe it is raining; I certainly hear the falling drops.

The rain was over, but drops were still falling from the trees.

It was difficult to see as the intensity of the falling snow was increasing by the hour.

She waited, gaze falling to Damian.

I've found old rock fences, and there's an old log cabin falling into ruins not too far from here.

It was the noise from the falling chair that woke me up.

The trees were falling around them.

His arms circled the pillow smelling most like her, and he melted into the bed, swiftly falling into slumber.

At once the attractive force of the solenoid on the iron cylinder was automatically reduced, and the falling of the latter caused the negative carbon to rise, starting an arc between it and the metal in the crucible.

The French emperor, however, preferred to keep Parga, as a convenient gate into the Balkan peninsula, and it remained in French occupation until March 1814, when the Pargiots rose against the garrison and handed the fortress over to the British to save it from falling into the hands of Ali, who had bought the town from the French commander, Cozi Nikolo, and was closely investing it.

Flakes of falling snow were fluttering in that light.

One cannon ball, another, and a third flew over him, falling in front, beside, and behind him.

The price of weapons, of gold, of carts and horses, kept rising, but the value of paper money and city articles kept falling, so that by midday there were instances of carters removing valuable goods, such as cloth, and receiving in payment a half of what they carted, while peasant horses were fetching five hundred rubles each, and furniture, mirrors, and bronzes were being given away for nothing.

I knew he and Lisa had dated for a long time, and I knew they had a falling out, but I never thought he'd try to hurt her physically.

She grabbed Brandon's shoulder to keep from falling.

The landscape became dimmer, and then she realized she was falling.

After the first several feet, the angle of the slope dropped more sharply and he was forced to move to his left to avoid falling.

Gabriel took a moment to breathe deeply, unsettled by how quickly his assassins were falling.

Rolling away from him, she sorted through endless subjects before finally falling asleep.

His elbows were propped on his knees, the trench falling back to show a lean body, flat stomach and muscular thighs outlined by the soft material of his pants.

His heartbeat was strong and steady, the thick arm wrapped around her as it had been when he held her after they'd made love for the last time before falling asleep.

She moved along, foot-by-foot, focusing on the next stone and on her anger to keep from sobbing and falling to her doom.

She stared at the silver eyes staring at her, slowly falling into an exhausted, restless slumber.

Even as Rhyn spoke, he was disturbed by the thought of the frazzled but sweet woman across the hall from him falling to his brother.

She half-stumbled, half-ran to the park area before tripping and falling flat.

He took a sip, gaze going to the snow falling outside the window.

She ached as much from her workout the day before as falling asleep sitting with her sketchbook.

A'Ran's grip tightened before falling from her.

It was the sound of something falling, a chair perhaps, that startled him in his winter sleep.

The snow began falling before dawn, drifting down with an urgency that heralded a serious accumulation.

From the very beginning there had been an intensity, a seriousness to the falling flakes that spoke of accumulations far in excess of anything the Deans had seen to date.

Jackson and Elisabeth spent many evenings outdoors lying on the frigid ground, stargazing, pointing out the constellations, and anticipating the occasional falling star.

Falling asleep in the hay.

She managed to get to the house without falling more than five times.

Brady started forward, and the others followed, falling into two teams.

Whoever kept her from falling swept her off her feet and placed her again on the hospital bed.

The world was falling apart around them, and he couldn't risk either of their mental states in a relationship that may not see both of them surviving.

He recalled the horror of falling from the sky and getting caught in the bridge.

The blond woman turned, gaze falling to Brady.

Rhyn was alone on the island sanctuary in his dreams and awoke to the feeling that his magic had slipped even more from its binding.  His body was hot from the inside out despite the cold rain falling in the forest.  The fire had died overnight.  He pushed the waterproof cloak off him.

In spite of the exhausting schedule of the day, Dean had diffi­culty falling asleep.

These things have a way of falling in place.

If you had dumped back up the road a couple of miles, you'd still be falling.

Now that it was over she was falling apart.

It had a strap over the top to keep the cell phone from falling out.