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FALLEN
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Killed in battle
Example:
to honor fallen soldiers
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dead (no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having lost your chastity
Example:
a fallen woman
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unchaste (not chaste)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Having fallen in or collapsed
Example:
a fallen building
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Adjectives
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destroyed (spoiled or ruined or demolished)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Having dropped by the force of gravity
Example:
sat on a fallen tree trunk
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Adjectives
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down (being or moving lower in position or less in some value)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past participle of the verb fall
Context examples:
A new study has shown how some early predecessors of proteins may have fallen into line.
(Pre-life building blocks spontaneously align in evolutionary experiment, National Science Foundation)
An observation which indicates that the hemoglobin concentration in a red blood cell specimen has fallen below a specified level.
(Hypochromia, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
I do believe the dear soul thought I might be jealous lest my poor dear should have fallen in love with any other girl.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Meanwhile, your arrangement was rather upset by the fact that you had yourself fallen in love with the lady.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Neither rocked any more, and they seemed to have fallen into placid meditation.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
He had fallen into a reverie, with the moss-rose between his fingers.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He lay quietly where he had fallen.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Only the year before, however, there had been a terrific earthquake, and the upper end of the tunnel had fallen in and completely disappeared.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He hath stripped me as though I had fallen into the hands of the tardvenus.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
If not originally theirs, by what strange events could it have fallen into the Tilney family?
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
