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FALL DOWN
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lose an upright position suddenly
Example:
Her hair fell across her forehead
Synonyms:
fall; fall down
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "fall down" is one way to...):
change posture (undergo a change in bodily posture)
Verb group:
fall (drop oneself to a lower or less erect position)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Context examples:
He held up his hand, and they all stopped; and I thought he seemed to be saying: 'All these lives will I give you, ay, and many more and greater, through countless ages, if you will fall down and worship me!'
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
A frequent interlude of these performances was the enactment of the part of Eutychus by some half-dozen of little girls, who, overpowered with sleep, would fall down, if not out of the third loft, yet off the fourth form, and be taken up half dead.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
We do not walk. All the time we fall down. We stand up and stagger two steps, maybe three steps, then we fall down again.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
It’s up to you to see that they don’t fall down.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Shoot into the midst of them, and one will fall down dead: the cloak will fall too; take it, it is a wishing-cloak, and when you wear it you will find yourself at any place where you may wish to be.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
The baby wolves see, too. They can no longer talk, but they whisper, 'On, on. Let us hurry!' And they fall down, but they go on.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Ah, dear Hans, said Elsie, if we marry each other and have a child, and he is big, and we perhaps send him here to draw something to drink, then the pick-axe which has been left up there might dash his brains out if it were to fall down, so have we not reason to weep?
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
He is very weak. We see him fall down many times in the snow.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
This tilted plate fascinated her. Why did it not fall down? It was ridiculous.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
By and by both fall down and cannot get up, and I must help them up all the time, else they will not get up and will die there in the snow.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
