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Verb [English]

Forms: falls down [present, singular, third-person], falling down [participle, present], fell down [past], fallen down [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|fall<,,fell,fallen> down}} fall down (third-person singular simple present falls down, present participle falling down, simple past fell down, past participle fallen down)
  1. (intransitive) To fall to the ground. To collapse. Tags: intransitive Synonyms (collapse): collapse, fall Synonyms (fall to the ground): drop, fall Derived forms: falldown [noun], fall down on Related terms: fall away, fall off, fall out Translations (to collapse): selhat (Czech), romahtaa (Finnish), összedől (Hungarian), decido (Latin) Translations (to fall to the ground): καταπίπτω (katapíptō) (Ancient Greek), (dit³) (Chinese Cantonese), 落下 (luòxià) (Chinese Mandarin), 倒下 (dǎoxià) (Chinese Mandarin), spadnout (Czech), neervallen (Dutch), велаш (velaš) (Eastern Mari), pudota (Finnish), tippua (Finnish), tomber (French), niederfallen (German), umfallen (German), 𐌲𐌰𐌳𐍂𐌹𐌿𐍃𐌰𐌽 (gadriusan) (Gothic), leesik (Hungarian), cadere (Italian), 落ちる (ochiru) (alt: おちる) (Japanese), 떨어지다 (tteoreojida) (Korean), decido (Latin), വീഴുക (vīḻuka) (Malayalam), खस्नु (khasnu) (Nepali), زمین خوردن (zamin xordan) (Persian), przewracać się [imperfective] (Polish), przewrócić się [perfective] (Polish), cadér (Romagnol), па́дать (pádatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), упа́сть (upástʹ) [perfective] (Russian), पतति (patati) (Sanskrit), -anguka (Swahili), 𐎐𐎔𐎍 (npl) (Ugaritic), toumer djus (Walloon), tchaire djus (Walloon), cwympo (Welsh), syrthio (Welsh)
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  2. (nautical) To sail or drift toward the mouth of a river or other outlet. Categories (topical): Nautical
    Sense id: en-fall_down-en-verb-DOR~movQ Topics: nautical, transport
  3. (intransitive, figurative) To fail; to make a mistake. Tags: figuratively, intransitive
    Sense id: en-fall_down-en-verb-73gXWTFy

Inflected forms

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          "text": "Ring a-ring o' roses, / A pocketful of posies. / A-tishoo! A-tishoo! / We all fall down. — traditional nursery rhyme (British version)"
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          "text": "The beams supporting the roof had rotted, causing the entire house to fall down."
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          "ref": "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:",
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          "text": "He describes the operation thus: \"The heavy ram employed to impart the finishing strokes, hoisted up with double purchase and snail's pace to the summit of the Piling Engine, and then falling down like a thunderbolt on the head of the devoted timber, driving it perhaps a single half inch in to the stratum below, is well calculated to put to the test the virtue of patience, while it illustrates the old adage of—slow and sure.\"",
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        "To fall to the ground. To collapse."
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        "(intransitive) To fall to the ground. To collapse."
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          "sense": "to fall to the ground",
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          "code": "got",
          "lang": "Gothic",
          "roman": "gadriusan",
          "sense": "to fall to the ground",
          "word": "𐌲𐌰𐌳𐍂𐌹𐌿𐍃𐌰𐌽"
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          "roman": "katapíptō",
          "sense": "to fall to the ground",
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          "word": "खस्नु"
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          "roman": "zamin xordan",
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          "word": "زمین خوردن"
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          "sense": "to fall to the ground",
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          "sense": "to fall to the ground",
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          "sense": "to fall to the ground",
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          "sense": "to fall to the ground",
          "word": "𐎐𐎔𐎍"
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          "sense": "to fall to the ground",
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  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "noun"
      ],
      "word": "falldown"
    },
    {
      "word": "fall down on"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "falls down",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "falling down",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fell down",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fallen down",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fall<,,fell,fallen> down"
      },
      "expansion": "fall down (third-person singular simple present falls down, present participle falling down, simple past fell down, past participle fallen down)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "fall away"
    },
    {
      "word": "fall off"
    },
    {
      "word": "fall out"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Ring a-ring o' roses, / A pocketful of posies. / A-tishoo! A-tishoo! / We all fall down. — traditional nursery rhyme (British version)"
        },
        {
          "text": "The beams supporting the roof had rotted, causing the entire house to fall down."
        },
        {
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1952 July, W. R. Watson, “Sankey Viaduct and Embankment”, in Railway Magazine, page 487:",
          "text": "He describes the operation thus: \"The heavy ram employed to impart the finishing strokes, hoisted up with double purchase and snail's pace to the summit of the Piling Engine, and then falling down like a thunderbolt on the head of the devoted timber, driving it perhaps a single half inch in to the stratum below, is well calculated to put to the test the virtue of patience, while it illustrates the old adage of—slow and sure.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To fall to the ground. To collapse."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "ground",
          "ground"
        ],
        [
          "collapse",
          "collapse"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To fall to the ground. To collapse."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Nautical"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To sail or drift toward the mouth of a river or other outlet."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "nautical",
          "nautical"
        ],
        [
          "sail",
          "sail"
        ],
        [
          "drift",
          "drift"
        ],
        [
          "mouth",
          "mouth"
        ],
        [
          "river",
          "river"
        ],
        [
          "outlet",
          "outlet"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(nautical) To sail or drift toward the mouth of a river or other outlet."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "That is where your reasoning falls down.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To fail; to make a mistake."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fail",
          "fail"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, figurative) To fail; to make a mistake."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "fall to the ground",
      "word": "drop"
    },
    {
      "sense": "fall to the ground",
      "word": "fall"
    },
    {
      "sense": "collapse",
      "word": "collapse"
    },
    {
      "sense": "collapse",
      "word": "fall"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "roman": "dit³",
      "sense": "to fall to the ground",
      "word": "跌"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "luòxià",
      "sense": "to fall to the ground",
      "word": "落下"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "dǎoxià",
      "sense": "to fall to the ground",
      "word": "倒下"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to fall to the ground",
      "word": "spadnout"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to fall to the ground",
      "word": "neervallen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to fall to the ground",
      "word": "pudota"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to fall to the ground",
      "word": "tippua"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to fall to the ground",
      "word": "tomber"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to fall to the ground",
      "word": "niederfallen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to fall to the ground",
      "word": "umfallen"
    },
    {
      "code": "got",
      "lang": "Gothic",
      "roman": "gadriusan",
      "sense": "to fall to the ground",
      "word": "𐌲𐌰𐌳𐍂𐌹𐌿𐍃𐌰𐌽"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "katapíptō",
      "sense": "to fall to the ground",
      "word": "καταπίπτω"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to fall to the ground",
      "word": "leesik"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to fall to the ground",
      "word": "cadere"
    },
    {
      "alt": "おちる",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "ochiru",
      "sense": "to fall to the ground",
      "word": "落ちる"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "tteoreojida",
      "sense": "to fall to the ground",
      "word": "떨어지다"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "to fall to the ground",
      "word": "decido"
    },
    {
      "code": "ml",
      "lang": "Malayalam",
      "roman": "vīḻuka",
      "sense": "to fall to the ground",
      "word": "വീഴുക"
    },
    {
      "code": "mhr",
      "lang": "Eastern Mari",
      "roman": "velaš",
      "sense": "to fall to the ground",
      "word": "велаш"
    },
    {
      "code": "ne",
      "lang": "Nepali",
      "roman": "khasnu",
      "sense": "to fall to the ground",
      "word": "खस्नु"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "zamin xordan",
      "sense": "to fall to the ground",
      "word": "زمین خوردن"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to fall to the ground",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "przewracać się"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to fall to the ground",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "przewrócić się"
    },
    {
      "code": "rgn",
      "lang": "Romagnol",
      "sense": "to fall to the ground",
      "word": "cadér"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pádatʹ",
      "sense": "to fall to the ground",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "па́дать"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "upástʹ",
      "sense": "to fall to the ground",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "упа́сть"
    },
    {
      "code": "sa",
      "lang": "Sanskrit",
      "roman": "patati",
      "sense": "to fall to the ground",
      "word": "पतति"
    },
    {
      "code": "sw",
      "lang": "Swahili",
      "sense": "to fall to the ground",
      "word": "-anguka"
    },
    {
      "code": "uga",
      "lang": "Ugaritic",
      "roman": "npl",
      "sense": "to fall to the ground",
      "word": "𐎐𐎔𐎍"
    },
    {
      "code": "wa",
      "lang": "Walloon",
      "sense": "to fall to the ground",
      "word": "toumer djus"
    },
    {
      "code": "wa",
      "lang": "Walloon",
      "sense": "to fall to the ground",
      "word": "tchaire djus"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "to fall to the ground",
      "word": "cwympo"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "to fall to the ground",
      "word": "syrthio"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to collapse",
      "word": "selhat"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to collapse",
      "word": "romahtaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to collapse",
      "word": "összedől"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "to collapse",
      "word": "decido"
    }
  ],
  "word": "fall down"
}

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