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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"

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"

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

fall between two stools fall board fall by the wayside fall cankerworm fall dandelion fall down fall equinox fall flat fall for fall foul

fall from grace fall guy fall ill fall in (current term) fall in line fall in love fall in with fall into fall into place fall line

fall of wicket fall off fall off a truck fall off the back of a lorry fall off the back of a truck fall off the turnip truck fall off the wagon fall on

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. ..."

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