fall

n.

1. The act of falling

   drop, decline, lapse, collapse, breakdown, tumble, spill, downfall, abasement, diminution, lowering, reduction, defeat, degradation, humiliation, descent, plunge, slump, subsidence, recession, ebb, abatement, sinking, dive, nose dive, slip, flop*; see also drop 2.

   Antonyms rise*, elevation*, ascent. *

2. Capture

   overthrow, capitulation, downfall, ruin; see defeat 2, destruction 2.

3. A yielding to temptation; often with the

   original sin, transgression, error, lapse; see sin.

4. That which falls

   rainfall, snowfall, precipitation, snow, rain, hail, sleet, blanket, carpet, covering, one or two or three, etc., inches of snow or rain.

5. The season after summer

   autumn, harvest, harvest time, the sere and yellow leaf, the fall of the year, September, October, November, ""when the frost is on the punkin' and the fodder's in the shock.''

6. A waterfall

   cascade, cataract, chute; see waterfall.

ride for a fall*

fall

v.

1. To pass quickly downward

   sink, topple, drop, stumble, trip, fall down, plunge, plummet, tumble, descend, go down, lower, totter, break down, cave in, decline, subside, collapse, buckle, crumple, settle, droop, slump, hang, regress, lapse, backslide, drop down, pitch, gravitate, come down suddenly, take a dive, take a nose dive, be precipitated, make a forced landing, fall flat, fall in, fold up, keel over, fall over, tip over, slope, slip, recede, relapse, abate, ebb, diminish, depreciate, decrease, flop*, take a spill*, take a header*.

   Antonyms rise*, ascend*, climb. *

2. To be overthrown

   submit, yield, surrender, succumb, be destroyed, be taken, pass into enemy hands, bend, defer, lie down, resign, capitulate, back down, topple, go down, go under, break up, get one's come-uppance*, fall to pieces*.

   Antonyms prevail, endure*, resist. *

3. To die in battle

   go down, slump, drop, bite the dust*; see die 1.

4. To occur

   take place, befall, come, come to pass; see happen 2.