What is "fallen"

Fall \Fall\ (f[add]l), v. i. [imp. Fell (f[e^]l); p. p. Fallen (f[add]l"'n); p. pr. & vb. n. Falling.] [AS. feallan; akin to D. vallen, OS. & OHG. fallan, G. fallen, Icel. Falla, Sw. falla, Dan. falde, Lith. pulti, L. fallere to deceive, Gr. sfa`llein to cause to fall, Skr. sphal, sphul, to tremble. Cf. Fail, Fell, v. t., to cause to fall.]

1. To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; the mercury falls in the barometer.

   I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
   --Luke x. 18.

2. To cease to be erect; to take suddenly a recumbent posture; to become prostrate; to drop; as, a child totters and falls; a tree falls; a worshiper falls on his knees.

   I fell at his feet to worship him.
   --Rev. xix. 10.

3. To find a final outlet; to discharge its waters; to empty; -- with into; as, the river Rhone falls into the Mediterranean.

4. To become prostrate and dead; to die; especially, to die by violence, as in battle.

   A thousand shall fall at thy side.
   --Ps. xci. 7.

   He rushed into the field, and, foremost fighting, fell.
   --Byron.

5. To cease to be active or strong; to die away; to lose strength; to subside; to become less intense; as, the wind falls.

6. To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; -- said of the young of certain animals.
   --Shak.

7. To decline in power, glory, wealth, or importance; to become insignificant; to lose rank or position; to decline in weight, value, price etc.; to become less; as, the price falls; stocks fell two points.

   I am a poor fallen man, unworthy now To be thy lord and master.
   --Shak.

   The greatness of these Irish lords suddenly fell and vanished.
   --Sir J. Davies.

8. To be overthrown or captured; to be destroyed.

   Heaven and earth will witness, If Rome must fall, that we are innocent.
   --Addison.

9. To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin; to depart from the faith; to apostatize; to sin.

   Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
   --Heb. iv. 11.

10. To become insnared or embarrassed; to be entrapped; to be worse off than before; as, to fall into error; to fall into difficulties.

11. To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; -- said of the countenance.

    Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
    --Gen. iv. 5.

    I have observed of late thy looks are fallen.
    --Addison.

12. To sink; to languish; to become feeble or faint; as, our spirits rise and fall with our fortunes.

13. To pass somewhat suddenly, and passively, into a new state of body or mind; to become; as, to fall asleep; to fall into a passion; to fall in love; to fall into temptation.

14. To happen; to to come to pass; to light; to befall; to issue; to terminate.

    The Romans fell on this model by chance.
    --Swift.

    Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall.
    --Ruth. iii. 18.

    They do not make laws, they fall into customs.
    --H. Spencer.

15. To come; to occur; to arrive.

    The vernal equinox, which at the Nicene Council fell on the 21st of March, falls now [1694] about ten days sooner.
    --Holder.

16. To begin with haste, ardor, or vehemence; to rush or hurry; as, they fell to blows.

    They now no longer doubted, but fell to work heart and soul.
    --Jowett (Thucyd. ).

17. To pass or be transferred by chance, lot, distribution, inheritance, or otherwise; as, the estate fell to his brother; the kingdom fell into the hands of his rivals.

18. To belong or appertain.

    If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all.
    --Pope.

19. To be dropped or uttered carelessly; as, an unguarded expression fell from his lips; not a murmur fell from him. To fall abroad of (Naut.), to strike against; -- applied to one vessel coming into collision with another. To fall among, to come among accidentally or unexpectedly. To fall astern (Naut.), to move or be driven backward; to be left behind; as, a ship falls astern by the force of a current, or when outsailed by another. To fall away.

    1. To lose flesh; to become lean or emaciated; to pine.

    2. To renounce or desert allegiance; to revolt or rebel.

    3. To renounce or desert the faith; to apostatize. ``These . . . for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.''
       --Luke viii. 13.

    4. To perish; to vanish; to be lost. ``How . . . can the soul . . . fall away into nothing?''
       --Addison.

    5. To decline gradually; to fade; to languish, or become faint. ``One color falls away by just degrees, and another rises insensibly.'' --Addison. To fall back.

       1. To recede or retreat; to give way.

       2. To fail of performing a promise or purpose; not to fulfill. To fall back upon or To fall back on.

          1. (Mil.) To retreat for safety to (a stronger position in the rear, as to a fort or a supporting body of troops).

          2. To have recourse to (a reserved fund, a more reliable alternative, or some other available expedient or support). To fall calm, to cease to blow; to become calm. To fall down.

             1. To prostrate one's self in worship. ``All kings shall fall down before him.''
                --Ps. lxxii. 11.

             2. To sink; to come to the ground. ``Down fell the beauteous youth.''
                --Dryden.

       3. To bend or bow, as a suppliant.

       4. (Naut.) To sail or drift toward the mouth of a river or other outlet. To fall flat, to produce no response or result; to fail of the intended effect; as, his speech fell flat. To fall foul of.

          1. (Naut.) To have a collision with; to become entangled with

          2. To attack; to make an assault upon. To fall from, to recede or depart from; not to adhere to; as, to fall from an agreement or engagement; to fall from allegiance or duty. To fall from grace (M. E. Ch.), to sin; to withdraw from the faith. To fall home (Ship Carp.), to curve inward; -- said of the timbers or upper parts of a ship's side which are much within a perpendicular. To fall in.

             1. To sink inwards; as, the roof fell in.

             2. (Mil.) To take one's proper or assigned place in line; as, to fall in on the right.

          3. To come to an end; to terminate; to lapse; as, on the death of Mr. B., the annuuity, which he had so long received, fell in.

          4. To become operative. ``The reversion, to which he had been nominated twenty years before, fell in.'' --Macaulay. To fall into one's hands, to pass, often suddenly or unexpectedly, into one's ownership or control; as, to spike cannon when they are likely to fall into the hands of the enemy. To fall in with.

             1. To meet with accidentally; as, to fall in with a friend.

             2. (Naut.) To meet, as a ship; also, to discover or come near, as land.

             3. To concur with; to agree with; as, the measure falls in with popular opinion.

             4. To comply; to yield to. ``You will find it difficult to persuade learned men to fall in with your projects.'' --Addison. To fall off.

                1. To drop; as, fruits fall off when ripe.

                2. To withdraw; to separate; to become detached; as, friends fall off in adversity. ``Love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide.''
                   --Shak.

                3. To perish; to die away; as, words fall off by disuse.

                4. To apostatize; to forsake; to withdraw from the faith, or from allegiance or duty.

                   Those captive tribes . . . fell off From God to worship calves.
                   --Milton.

       5. To forsake; to abandon; as, his customers fell off.

    6. To depreciate; to change for the worse; to deteriorate; to become less valuable, abundant, or interesting; as, a falling off in the wheat crop; the magazine or the review falls off. ``O Hamlet, what a falling off was there!''
       --Shak.

    7. (Naut.) To deviate or trend to the leeward of the point to which the head of the ship was before directed; to fall to leeward. To fall on.

       1. To meet with; to light upon; as, we have fallen on evil days.

       2. To begin suddenly and eagerly. ``Fall on, and try the appetite to eat.''
          --Dryden.

       3. To begin an attack; to assault; to assail. ``Fall on, fall on, and hear him not.''
          --Dryden.

       4. To drop on; to descend on. To fall out.

          1. To quarrel; to begin to contend.

             A soul exasperated in ills falls out With everything, its friend, itself.
             --Addison.

          2. To happen; to befall; to chance. ``There fell out a bloody quarrel betwixt the frogs and the mice.''
             --L'Estrange.

          3. (Mil.) To leave the ranks, as a soldier. To fall over.

             1. To revolt; to desert from one side to another.

             2. To fall beyond. --Shak. To fall short, to be deficient; as, the corn falls short; they all fall short in duty. To fall through, to come to nothing; to fail; as, the engageent has fallen through. To fall to, to begin. ``Fall to, with eager joy, on homely food.'' --Dryden. To fall under.

                1. To come under, or within the limits of; to be subjected to; as, they fell under the jurisdiction of the emperor.

                2. To come under; to become the subject of; as, this point did not fall under the cognizance or deliberations of the court; these things do not fall under human sight or observation.

             3. To come within; to be ranged or reckoned with; to be subordinate to in the way of classification; as, these substances fall under a different class or order. To fall upon.

                1. To attack. [See To fall on.]

                2. To attempt; to have recourse to. ``I do not intend to fall upon nice disquisitions.''
                   --Holder.

                3. To rush against.

                   Note: Fall primarily denotes descending motion, either in a perpendicular or inclined direction, and, in most of its applications, implies, literally or figuratively, velocity, haste, suddenness, or violence. Its use is so various, and so mush diversified by modifying words, that it is not easy to enumerate its senses in all its applications.

Fallen \Fall"en\, a. Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead.

Some ruined temple or fallen monument.
--Rogers.

c.1400, past participle adjective from fall (v.). Used figuratively for "morally ruined" by 1620s, from the verb in the sense "yield to temptation" (especially in reference to women and chastity), attested from c.1200. Meaning "those who have died" attested by 1765. Fallen angel is from 1680s; fallen woman by 1748.

1. 1 having dropped by the force of gravity 2 (context literary English) killed in battle 3 having lost one's chastity 4 having collapsed n. 1 (context pluralonly English) The dead 2 (context pluralonly English) casualties of battle or war. 3 (context countable Christianity English) One who has fallen, as from grace. v

2. (past participle of fall English)

1. adj. having dropped by the force of gravity; "fallen leaves covered the forest floor"; "sat on a fallen tree trunk"

2. having fallen in or collapsed; "a fallen building"

3. having lost your chastity; "a fallen woman"

4. killed in battle; "to honor fallen soldiers"

See fall

1. n. the season when the leaves fall from the trees; "in the fall of 1973" [syn: autumn]

2. a sudden drop from an upright position; "he had a nasty spill on the ice" [syn: spill, tumble]

3. the lapse of mankind into sinfulness because of the sin of Adam and Eve; "women have been blamed ever since the Fall"

4. a downward slope or bend [syn: descent, declivity, decline, declination, declension, downslope] [ant: ascent]

5. a lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity; "a fall from virtue"

6. a sudden decline in strength or number or importance; "the fall of the House of Hapsburg" [syn: downfall] [ant: rise]

7. a movement downward; "the rise and fall of the tides" [ant: rise]

8. the act of surrendering (under agreed conditions); "they were protected until the capitulation of the fort" [syn: capitulation, surrender]

9. the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night" [syn: twilight, dusk, gloaming, nightfall, evenfall, crepuscule, crepuscle]

10. when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat [syn: pin]

11. a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity; "it was a miracle that he survived the drop from that height" [syn: drop]

12. a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity; "a drop of 57 points on the Dow Jones index"; "there was a drop in pressure in the pulmonary artery"; "a dip in prices"; "when that became known the price of their stock went into free fall" [syn: drop, dip, free fall]

13. [also: fell, fallen]

1. v. descend in free fall under the influence of gravity; "The branch fell from the tree"; "The unfortunate hiker fell into a crevasse"

2. move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way; "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again" [syn: descend, go down, come down] [ant: rise, ascend]

3. pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind; "fall into a trap"; "She fell ill"; "They fell out of favor"; "Fall in love"; "fall asleep"; "fall prey to an imposter"; "fall into a strange way of thinking"; "she fell to pieces after she lost her work"

4. come under, be classified or included; "fall into a category"; "This comes under a new heading" [syn: come]

5. fall from clouds; "rain, snow and sleet were falling"; "Vesuvius precipitated its fiery, destructive rage on Herculaneum" [syn: precipitate, come down]

6. suffer defeat, failure, or ruin; "We must stand or fall"; "fall by the wayside"

7. decrease in size, extent, or range; "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fall to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper" [syn: decrease, diminish, lessen] [ant: increase]

8. die, as in battle or in a hunt; "Many soldiers fell at Verdun"; "Several deer have fallen to the same gun"; "The shooting victim fell dead"

9. touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly; "Light fell on her face"; "The sun shone on the fields"; "The light struck the golden necklace"; "A strange sound struck my ears" [syn: shine, strike]

10. be captured; "The cities fell to the enemy"

11. occur at a specified time or place; "Christmas falls on a Monday this year"; "The accent falls on the first syllable"

12. yield to temptation or sin; "Adam and Eve fell"

13. lose office or power; "The government fell overnight"; "The Qing Dynasty fell with Sun Yat-sen"

14. to be given by assignment or distribution; "The most difficult task fell on the youngest member of the team"; "The onus fell on us"; "The pressure to succeed fell on the yougest student"

15. move in a specified direction; "The line of men fall forward"

16. be due; "payments fall on the 1st of the month"

17. lose one's chastity; "a fallen woman"

18. to be given by right or inheritance; "The estate fell to the oldest daughter"

19. come into the possession of; "The house accrued to the oldest son" [syn: accrue]

20. fall to somebody by assignment or lot; "The task fell to me"; "It fell to me to notify the parents of the victims" [syn: light]

21. be inherited by; "The estate fell to my sister"; "The land returned to the family"; "The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead" [syn: return, pass, devolve]

22. slope downward; "The hills around here fall towards the ocean"

23. lose an upright position suddenly; "The vase fell over and the water spilled onto the table"; "Her hair fell across her forehead" [syn: fall down]

24. drop oneself to a lower or less erect position; "She fell back in her chair"; "He fell to his knees"

25. fall or flow in a certain way; "This dress hangs well"; "Her long black hair flowed down her back" [syn: hang, flow]

26. assume a disappointed or sad expression; "Her face fell when she heard that she would be laid off"; "his crest fell"

27. be cast down; "his eyes fell"

28. come out; issue; "silly phrases fell from her mouth"

29. be born, used chiefly of lambs; "The lambs fell in the afternoon"

30. begin vigorously; "The prisoners fell to work right away"

31. go as if by falling; "Grief fell from our hearts"

32. come as if by falling; "Night fell"; "Silence fell" [syn: descend, settle]

33. [also: fell, fallen]

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