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See also: falldown
English[edit]
Verb[edit]
fall down (third-person singular simple present falls down, present participle falling down, simple past fell down, past participle fallen down)
- (intransitive) To fall to the ground. To collapse.
- Ring a-ring o' roses, / A pocketful of posies. / A-tishoo! A-tishoo! / We all fall down. — traditional nursery rhyme (British version)
- The beams supporting the roof had rotted, causing the entire house to fall down.
- 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
- Out of spite, the human beings pretended not to believe that it was Snowball who had destroyed the windmill: they said that it had fallen down because the walls were too thin.
- (nautical) To sail or drift toward the mouth of a river or other outlet.
- (intransitive, figurative) To fail.
- That is where your reasoning falls down.
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Derived terms[edit]
- falldown (noun)
- fall down on
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
to fall to the ground
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