"fall to one's knees" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "falls to one's knees",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "falling to one's knees",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fell to one's knees",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fallen to one's knees",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fall<,,fell,fallen> to one's knees"
      },
      "expansion": "fall to one's knees (third-person singular simple present falls to one's knees, present participle falling to one's knees, simple past fell to one's knees, past participle fallen to one's knees)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 30, in Nick, New York, Boston, London: Little, Brown and Company, page 161",
          "text": "And then he dropped the pistol and fell to his knees and buried his face in his hands and began to cry violently, his shoulders heaving and his head bouncing and the exasperation of something having finally reached its end.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To collapse into a crouched kneeling position."
      ],
      "id": "en-fall_to_one's_knees-en-verb-Knwe4dqq",
      "links": [
        [
          "collapse",
          "collapse"
        ],
        [
          "crouch",
          "crouch"
        ],
        [
          "kneel",
          "kneel"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "pudota polvilleen"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "auf die Knie fallen"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "buttarsi in ginocchio"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fall to one's knees"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "falls to one's knees",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "falling to one's knees",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fell to one's knees",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fallen to one's knees",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fall<,,fell,fallen> to one's knees"
      },
      "expansion": "fall to one's knees (third-person singular simple present falls to one's knees, present participle falling to one's knees, simple past fell to one's knees, past participle fallen to one's knees)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Translation table header lacks gloss"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 30, in Nick, New York, Boston, London: Little, Brown and Company, page 161",
          "text": "And then he dropped the pistol and fell to his knees and buried his face in his hands and began to cry violently, his shoulders heaving and his head bouncing and the exasperation of something having finally reached its end.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To collapse into a crouched kneeling position."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "collapse",
          "collapse"
        ],
        [
          "crouch",
          "crouch"
        ],
        [
          "kneel",
          "kneel"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "pudota polvilleen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "auf die Knie fallen"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "buttarsi in ginocchio"
    }
  ],
  "word": "fall to one's knees"
}