FALL DOWN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fall down mean? 

• FALL DOWN (verb)
  The verb FALL DOWN has 1 sense:

1. lose an upright position suddenly

  Familiarity information: FALL DOWN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FALL DOWN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lose an upright position suddenly

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

fall; fall down

Context example:

Her hair fell across her forehead

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 

"Because," answered the Princess, also stopping, a safe distance away, "if I run I may fall down and break myself."

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

"I watched him. He couldn't walk across the floor without stumblin'. You heard 'm yourself almost fall down in the hall."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The man and the woman stop maybe fifty feet away. Their legs, too, are wide apart so that they do not fall down, and their bodies rock to and fro.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

So she cried out, “The king’s daughter shall, in her fifteenth year, be wounded by a spindle, and fall down dead.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

"Normally the dust would fall down in a day or so," said the paper's lead author, Nicholas Heavens of Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia.

(Global Storms on Mars Launch Dust Towers Into the Sky, NASA)

But they do fall down, and when did you ever pick them up?

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You lose muscle control at the same time, and may fall down.

(Fainting, NIH)

I remembered Michelet’s “To man, woman is as the earth was to her legendary son; he has but to fall down and kiss her breast and he is strong again.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I only wonder I didn’t fall down and do a faint right there before the altar.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then there were the pebbles and stones that turned under him when he trod upon them; and from them he came to know that the things not alive were not all in the same state of stable equilibrium as was his cave—also, that small things not alive were more liable than large things to fall down or turn over.

(White Fang, by Jack London)