Niagara’s got some big ‘uns!
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verb
- To descend freely by the force of gravity
"An apple fell from the tree."
- To hang freely
"her hair falls over her shoulders"
- To drop oneself to a lower position
"fell to his knees"
- To come or go as if by falling
"darkness falls early in the winter"
- To become born
- To become lower in degree or level
"the temperature fell 10°"
- To drop in pitch or volume
"their voices fell to a whisper"
- Issue
"wisdom that fell from his lips"
- To become lowered
"her eyes fell"
- To leave an erect position suddenly and involuntarily
"slipped and fell on the ice"
- To enter as if unawares stumble, stray
"fell into error"
- To drop down wounded or dead
- To suffer military capture
"after a long siege the city fell"
- To lose office
"the party fell from power"
- To suffer ruin, defeat, or failure
"the deal fell through"
- To commit an immoral act
"but man willfully misused his God-given freedom and fell into sin"
- To move or extend in a downward direction
"the land falls away to the east"
- Subside, abate
"the wind is falling"
- To decline in quality, activity, or quantity
"production fell off"
- To lose weight
- To assume a look of shame, disappointment, or dejection
"his face fell"
- To decline in financial value or price
"stocks fell sharply"
- To occur at a certain time
"her birthday falls on a Monday this year"
- To come by chance
"a job that fell into his hands"
- To come or pass by lot, assignment, or inheritance devolve
"it fell to him to break the news"
- To have a certain or proper position, place, or station
"the accent falls on the second syllable"
- To come within the limits, scope, or jurisdiction of something
"this word falls into the class of verbs"
- To pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind or a new state or condition
"fall asleep"
- To set about heartily or actively
"fell to work"
- Strike, impinge
"music falling on the ear"
- Fell
noun
- The act of falling by the force of gravity
- A falling out, off, or away dropping
"the fall of leaves"
- The season when leaves fall from trees autumn
- A thing or quantity that falls} or has {a_link
"a fall of rock at the base of the cliff"
- A costume decoration of lace or thin fabric arranged to hang loosely and gracefully
- A very wide turned-down collar worn in the 17th century
- The part of a turnover collar from the crease to the outer edge
- A wide front flap on trousers (such as those worn by sailors)
- The freely hanging lower edge of the skirt of a coat
- One of the three outer and often drooping segments of the flower of an iris compare standard
- Long hair overhanging the face of dogs of some breeds
- A usually long straight portion of hair that is attached to a person's own hair
- A hoisting-tackle rope or chain
- Loss of greatness collapse
"the fall of the Roman Empire"
- The surrender or capture of a besieged place
"the fall of Troy"
- Lapse or departure from innocence or goodness
- Loss of a woman's chastity
- The blame for a failure or misdeed
"took the fall for the robbery"
- The downward slope (as of a hill) declivity
- A precipitous descent of water waterfall
- A musical cadence
- A falling-pitch intonation in speech
- A decrease in size, quantity, degree, or value
- The distance which something falls
- Inclination, pitch
- The act of felling something
- The quantity of trees cut down
- Destiny, lot
geographical name
- Waterfall, the world's highest with a drop of 3212 feet (979 meters), in southeastern Venezuela on Auyán-tepuí Mountain in a headstream of the Caroní River
geographical name
- Waterfall 480 feet (146 meters) tall in the Orange River in Northern Cape province, Republic of South Africa
geographical name
- Series of seven cataracts in the Lualaba River, northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, near the head of the Congo River with a total fall of about 200 feet (61 meters) in 60 miles (96 kilometers)
geographical name
- Waterfall in the Cauvery River on the Karnataka–Tamil Nadu boundary in India
geographical name
- City in northeastern Iowa northwest of Waterloo population 39,260
geographical name
- City just north of Pawtucket in northern Rhode Island population 19,376
geographical name
- Waterfall 245 feet (75 meters) high in the Churchill River, western Labrador, Canada
geographical name
- Falls in the upper course of the Cumberland River, southeastern Kentucky
This clue was used on March 12, 2025.
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