fall down

verb
/fɔːl ˈdaʊn/UK/fɔl ˈdaʊn/US/fɑl ˈdaʊn/

Definitions

  1. To fall to the ground. To collapse.

    • Ring a-ring o' roses, / A pocketful of posies. / A-tishoo! A-tishoo! / We all fall down. — traditional nursery rhyme (British version)
    • The beams supporting the roof had rotted, causing the entire house to fall down.
    • Out of spite, the human beings pretended not to believe that it was Snowball who had destroyed the windmill: they said that it had fallen down because the walls were too thin.
  2. To sail or drift toward the mouth of a river or other outlet.

  3. To fail

    To fail; to make a mistake.

    • That is where your reasoning falls down.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA