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Definition of Fall in
1. Verb. Break down, literally or metaphorically. "The business is going to fall in "; "The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice"
Generic synonyms: Change
Specialized synonyms: Go Off, Implode, Buckle, Crumple, Flop, Break, Sink, Slide Down, Slump
Related verbs: Abandon, Give Up, Burst, Collapse
Derivative terms: Cave In, Collapse, Collapse
2. Verb. To take one's place in a military formation or line. "Troops fall in!"
3. Verb. Become part of; become a member of a group or organization. "He joined the Communist Party as a young man"
Specialized synonyms: Sign Up, Band Oneself, League Together, Organise, Organize, Unionise, Unionize, Affiliate, Rejoin, Infiltrate, Penetrate, Unify, Unite
Derivative terms: Joiner
Definition of Fall in
1. Verb. (intransitive) To collapse inwards. ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive military) Of a soldier, to get into position in a rank. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fall In
Literary usage of Fall in
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine (1909)
"CHAPTER XLV That we must not believe everyone, and that we are prone to fall in
our words • LORD, be thou my help in trouble, for vain is the help of man.1 ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... the fact that a body appears to fall in a vertical line in spite of the Earth's
motion; to obtain the trajectory of this body it is necessary to combine ..."
3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1910)
"... for the purpose of pulling the tree down and so guiding It that It may fall
in some general direction, Incurs an obvious danger of the tree falling on ..."
4. Journal of the American Medical Association by American Medical Association (1890)
"In the dog one-fiftieth of a grain produced a primary fall in the carotid, ...
Tincture of digitalis in dogs caused slight fall in carotid pressure, ..."
5. Thucydides Translated Into English by Benjamin Jowett, Thucydides (1881)
"II. who fall in war; only after the battle of Marathon the BC ^31. dead, in
recognition of their pre-eminent valour, were interred on the field. ..."