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fall
Part of speech: Participle Part of speech: VerbTo drop from a higher to a lower place; drop from an erect position; descend; sink; perish; be degraded or disgraced; befall or happen; as, night falls; become the property of; as, the estate falls to him.
Part of speech: Adjective Part of speech: NounThe act of dropping from a higher to a lower place; distance through which anything drops; overthrow; ruin; death; waterfall; cataract; decrease in value; autumn.
Part of speech: Past tenseFell.
Part of speech: Participle Usage examples "fall":- I saw him fall into the water long ago; so I surely expected he would have been here. - "Journeys Through Bookland V2", Charles H. Sylvester.
- Couldn't go off without seeing you,- telling you how sorry I was I let you get that fall off my shoulders. - "Killykinick", Mary T. Waggaman.
- They fall into the wrong hands, and then where are we? - "Helmet of Navarre", Bertha Runkle.