Definition of Fall in

1. Verb. Break down, literally or metaphorically. "The business is going to fall in "; "The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice"

Exact synonyms: Break, Cave In, Collapse, Founder, Give, Give Way
Generic synonyms: Change
Specialized synonyms: Go Off, Implode, Buckle, Crumple, Flop, Break, Sink, Slide Down, Slump
Related verbs: Abandon, Give Up, Burst, Collapse
Derivative terms: Cave In, Collapse, Collapse

2. Verb. To take one's place in a military formation or line. "Troops fall in!"

3. Verb. Become part of; become a member of a group or organization. "He joined the Communist Party as a young man"

Definition of Fall in

1. Verb. (intransitive) To collapse inwards. ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive military) Of a soldier, to get into position in a rank. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fall In

fall between two stools
fall board
fall by the wayside
fall cankerworm
fall dandelion
fall down
fall equinox
fall flat
fall for
fall foul
fall from grace
fall guy
fall ill
fall in (current term)
fall in line
fall in love
fall in with
fall into
fall into place
fall line
fall of wicket
fall off
fall off a truck
fall off the back of a lorry
fall off the back of a truck
fall off the turnip truck
fall off the wagon
fall on

Literary usage of Fall in

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine (1909)
"CHAPTER XLV That we must not believe everyone, and that we are prone to fall in our words • LORD, be thou my help in trouble, for vain is the help of man.1 ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... the fact that a body appears to fall in a vertical line in spite of the Earth's motion; to obtain the trajectory of this body it is necessary to combine ..."

3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1910)
"... for the purpose of pulling the tree down and so guiding It that It may fall in some general direction, Incurs an obvious danger of the tree falling on ..."

4. Journal of the American Medical Association by American Medical Association (1890)
"In the dog one-fiftieth of a grain produced a primary fall in the carotid, ... Tincture of digitalis in dogs caused slight fall in carotid pressure, ..."

5. Thucydides Translated Into English by Benjamin Jowett, Thucydides (1881)
"II. who fall in war; only after the battle of Marathon the BC ^31. dead, in recognition of their pre-eminent valour, were interred on the field. ..."

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