FALL OVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fall over mean? 

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

1. fall forward and down

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FALL OVER (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fall forward and down

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

fall over; go over

Context example:

The old woman went over without a sound

Hypernyms (to "fall over" is one way to...):

break down; collapse (collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

You can choose to go anywhere, near or far, to take full advantage of the stardust about to fall over you.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Mrs. Westenra has got an idea that sleep-walkers always go out on roofs of houses and along the edges of cliffs and then get suddenly wakened and fall over with a despairing cry that echoes all over the place.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

After shaking hands with me—his hand felt like a fish, in the dark—he opened the door into the street a very little, and crept out, and shut it, leaving me to grope my way back into the house: which cost me some trouble and a fall over his stool.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)