OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 1519

fall

/fɔːl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
caer • caerse
To be moved downwards.
I fell unconscious on the floor.
Thrown from a cliff, the stone fell 100 feet before hitting the ground.
descender
To be moved downwards.
Her eyes fell on the table, and she advanced into the room wiping her hands on her apron.
The rain fell at dawn.
caer
To change, often negatively.
Near-synonyms: become, get, go, turn, come, grow, wax
She has fallen ill.
colapsar
To change, often negatively.
Rome fell to the Goths in 410 AD.
morir
To change, often negatively.
This is a monument to all those who fell in the First World War.
recaer
To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
And so it falls to me to make this important decision.
The estate fell to his brother.
incidir • recaer
To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.
to fall into error; to fall into difficulties