fall

/fɔːl/

US pronunciation

American sound/fɔːl/

fall

Syllables: 1 syllable
Stress: One strong syllable
Vowel: Aw vowel
Ending: Clear final sound

US voice -> fall

Myanmar meaning

(v) (က) ကျသည်။ ပြုတ်ကျသည်။ (ခ) လဲသည်။ လဲကျသည်။ လဲပြိုသည်။ လဲပြိုကျသည်။ ပြုတ်သည်။ ကျသည်။ ကြွေသည်။ ရွာသည်။ ဖားလျားကျသည်။ ဖားလျားချထားသည်။ ~ (away/off) နိမ့်ဆင်းသွားသည်။ ၅။ လျော့နည်းသွားသည်။ ကျ သည်။ ၆။ (က) ပြုတ်ကျသည်။ (ခ) ~ (to sb) တစ်စုံတစ်ဦး လက်သို့ ကျရောက်သည်။ ကျသည်။ ၇။ တိုက်ပွဲ တွင် ကျဆုံးသည်။ ၈။ ~ (into sth) တစ်စုံတစ်ခုသော အခြေအနေသို့ ရောက်ရှိသွားသည်။ ၉။ ~ (on sb/sth) (ငြိမ်၊ မှောင် စသည်) ကျသွားသည်။ ၁၀။ ကျရောက်သည်။ ၁ကျရောက်သည်။ အကျုံးဝင်သည်။ ၁(မျက်စိ) ရောက် သွားသည်။ ကျရောက်သည်။ ၁(လွှတ်ခနဲ) ပြောသည်။ (ဖွင့်) ဟ သည်။ (n) လိမ့်ကျခြင်း။ ~ (of sth) (က) ကျလာသောအရာ။ ကျခြင်း။ (ခ) အကျ။ ကျပုံ။ (တန်ဖိုး၊ ဦးရေ) ကျဆင်းခြင်း။ ပျက်စီးရခြင်း။ ကျခြင်း။ ပြုတ်ကျခြင်း။

Full entry

fall / fↄ:l / v (pt fell /fel/; pp fallen / 'fↄ:lǝn /)

၁။ (က) ကျသည်။ ပြုတ်ကျသည်။ He slipped and fell (ten feet). ❍ The book fell off the table onto the floor. ❍ He fell into the river. ❍ She fell over and banged her head ❍The baby was trying to walk but kept falling down. ❍ I need a new bicycle lamp—my old one fell off and broke. ❍ The roof of the tunnel fell in, burying six miners. (ခ) လဲသည်။ လဲကျသည်။ လဲပြိုသည်။ လဲပြိုကျသည်။ ပြုတ်သည်။ Many trees fell in the storm. ❍ (fig ) Six wickets fell (ie Six batsmen in cricket were dismissed) before lunch. ❍ Part of the hotel fell into the sea. ❍ The old abbey is falling down.
၂။ ကျသည်။ ကြွေသည်။ ရွာသည်။ The rain was falling steadily. ❍ The leaves fall in autumn.
၃။ ဖားလျားကျသည်။ ဖားလျားချထားသည်။ Her hair fell over her shoulders in a mass of curls.
၄။ ~ (away/off ) နိမ့်ဆင်းသွားသည်။ Beyond the hill, the land falls (away) sharply towards the river.
၅။ လျော့နည်းသွားသည်။ ကျ သည်။ Their profits have fallen by 30 per cent. ❍ Share prices fell 30 p. ❍ Prices continued to fall on the stock market today. ❍ falling birth rates ❍ The temperature fell sharply in the night.
၆။ (က) ပြုတ်ကျသည်။ The coup failed but the government fell shortly afterwards. (ခ) ~ (to sb ) တစ်စုံတစ်ဦး လက်သို့ ကျရောက်သည်။ ကျသည်။ Troy finally fell (to the Greeks). ❍ The constituency has now fallen to the Democrats.
၇။ တိုက်ပွဲ တွင် ကျဆုံးသည်။ a memorial to those who fell (in battle).
၈။ ~ (into sth ) တစ်စုံတစ်ခုသော အခြေအနေသို့ ရောက်ရှိသွားသည်။ fall asleep ❍ He fell silent. ❍ Has she fallen ill again? ❍ The book fell open (ie opened by chance) at a page of illustrations. ❍ She fell an easy prey to his charm. ❍ fall under the influence of sb ❍ He fell into a doze. ❍ We fell easily into conversation. ❍ The house fell into decay.
၉။ ~ (on sb/sth ) (ငြိမ်၊ မှောင် စသည်) ကျသွားသည်။ A sudden silence fell. ❍ Darkness falls quickly in the tropics. ❍ An expectant hush fell on the guests.
၁၀။ ကျရောက်သည်။ Easter falls early this year. ❍ Christmas Day falls on a Monday.
၁၁။ ကျရောက်သည်။ အကျုံးဝင်သည်။ Out of over 400 staff there are just 7 that fall into this category. ❍ This case falls outside my jurisdiction. ❍ This falls under the heading of scientific research.
၁၂။ (မျက်စိ) ရောက် သွားသည်။ ကျရောက်သည်။ Which syllable does the stress of this word fall on? ❍ My eye fell on (ie I suddenly saw) a curious object. ❍ A shadow fell accorss her face.
၁၃။ (လွှတ်ခနဲ) ပြောသည်။ (ဖွင့်) ဟ သည်။ I guessed what was happening from a few words she let fall (ie from what she said). ❍ (rhet ) Not a word fell from his lips.
n
၁။ [C] လိမ့်ကျခြင်း။ I had a fall (from a horse) and broke my arm. ❍ That was a nasty fall.
၂။ ~ (of sth) (က) [C] ကျလာသောအရာ။ ကျခြင်း။ a heavy fall of snow/rain ❍ a fall of rock(s). (ခ) [sing] အကျ။ ကျပုံ။ the fall of the cards/dice.
၃။ [C] ~ ( in sth ) (တန်ဖိုး၊ ဦးရေ) ကျဆင်းခြင်း။ a steep fall in prices/profits ❍ a fall in the numbers attending.
၄။ [sing] ~ (of sth ) ပျက်စီးရခြင်း။ ကျခြင်း။ ပြုတ်ကျခြင်း။ the fall of the Roman Empire/of Singapore ❍ events leading to the fall of the last Labour government.
၅။ [C] (US ) = AUTUMN: in the fall of 1970 ❍ last fall.
၆။ the Fall [sing] (Bible ) အာဒံနှင့်ဧဝ ဘုရားသခင် စကား နားမထောင်သဖြင့် အီဒင်ဥယျာဉ် ထဲမှ ထွက်သွားရသော ပျက်ခန်း။
၇။ falls [pl] ရေတံခွန်။ The falls upstream are full of salmon. ❍ Niagara Falls.
❏ fall about [PHRV ] (infml ) အူနှိပ်နေရသည်။ We all fell about (laughing/with laughter) when he did his imitation of our English teacher.
❏ fall apart [PHRV ]
၁။ တစ်စစီ ပြုတ်ထွက်သည်။ My car is falling apart.
၂။ ပြိုကွဲသည်။ Their marriage finally fell apart. ❍ The deal fell apart when we failed to agree on a price.
❏ fall away [PHRV ]
၁။ စွန့်ခွာသည်။ His supporters fell away as his popularity declined.
၂။ လျော့ပါး ပျောက် ကွယ်သည်။ The market for their products fell away to almost nothing. ❍ All our doubts fell away.
❏ fall back [PHRV ]
၁။ နောက်ပြန်ဆုတ်သည်။ The enemy fell back as our troops advanced.
၂။ လျော့သည်။ ကျသည်။ Share prices fell back after brisk early trading.
❏ fall-back adj အရေးပေါ်ကိစ္စအတွက် အရန်။ establish a fall-back position.
❏ fall back on sb/sth [PHRV ] အဆုံးတွင် အားထားသည်။ We can always fall back on candles if the electricity fails. ❍ She's completely homeless—at least I have my parents to fall back on.
❏ fall behind (sb/sth) [PHRV ] နောက်ကျကျန်ရစ်သည်။ She soon fell behind the leaders. ❍ France has fallen behind (Germany) in coal production.
❏ fall behind with sth [PHRV ] ကြွေးတင်သည်။ Don't fall behind with the rent, or you’ll be evicted. ❍ I've fallen behind with my work again.
❏ fall down [PHRV ] မပြည့်မီဖြစ်သည်။ မဖြစ်မြောက်။ Where the proposal falls down is in not taking enough account of the feelings of local people.
❏ the fallen n [pl] (dated or fml ) ကျဆုံးရဲဘော်များ။
❏ fall for sb [PHRV ] (infml ) ကျသည်။ They fell for each other instantly.
❏ fall for sth [PHRV ] (infml ) အနှပ်ခံရသည်။ အလှည့်ခံ ရသည်။ The salesman said the car was in good condition, and I was foolish enough to fall for it.
❏ fall (sb) in [PHRV ] တန်းစီသည်။ The sergeant ordered his men to fall in.
❏ falling star n = SHOOTING STAR
❏ fall in with sb/sth [PHRV ]
၁။ ပေါင်းမိသည်။ He fell in with bad company.
၂။ (Brit ) သဘောတူလက်ခံသည်။ She fell in with my idea at once.
❏ fall into sth [PHRV ]
၁။ (ထောင်ချောက်ထဲ) ဝင်လာသည်။ They fell right into our trap.
၂။ ခွဲခြမ်းစိတ်ဖြာနိုင်သည်။ ခွဲနိုင်သည်။ My talk falls naturally into three parts.
❏ fall off [PHRV ] နည်းသွားသည်။ ကျသွားသည်။ Attendance at my lectures has fallen off considerably. ❍ It used to be my favourite restaurant but the standard of cooking has fallen off recently.
❏ fall-off n [sing] ~ (in sth ) ထိုင်းခြင်း။ ကျဆင်းခြင်း။ a recent fall-off in sales. There has been a slight fall-off in attendance since last week.
❏ fall on/upon sb/sth [PHRV ]
၁။ ခုန်အုပ်သည်။ They fell on the retreating army and routed them. ❍ The children fell on the food and ate it greedily.
၂။ ခေါင်းပေါ်ကျသည်။ The full cost of the wedding fell on me.
❏ fall out [PHRV ] ကျွတ်ထွက်သည်။ ကျွတ်သည်။ His hair is falling out. ❍ My tooth fell out.
❏ fall (sb) out [PHRV ] တန်းဖြုတ်သည်။
❏ fall out (with sb) [PHRV ] ရန်ဖြစ်သည်။ စကား များသည်။ သဘောကွဲလွဲသည်။ They fell out with each other just before the wedding.
❏ fall out of sth [PHRV ] ကုန်သွားသည်။ fall out of love/fashion.
❏ fall over sb/sth [PHRV ] ခလုတ်တိုက် လဲသည်။ I rushed for the door and fell over the dog in the hallway.
❏ fall over oneself to do sth [PHRV ] (infml ) အငမ်းမရ ဖြစ်သည်။ People were falling over themselves to be introduced to the star of the film.
❏ fall through [PHRV ] ပျက်ပြားသွားသည်။ Our plans fell through because of a sudden death in the family.
❏ fall to (doing sth) [PHRV ] … နေမိသည်။ She fell to brooding about what had happened to her.
❏ fall to sb (to do sth) [PHRV ] (fml ) ခေါင်းပေါ် ကျသည်။ It fell to me to inform her of her son's death.

More examples

[fall off/through/out of etc] : Ann’s just fallen downstairs and hurt her back.
I keep falling off my bike.
[fall to your death] : A climber fell to his death today.
Snow began to quietly fall.
Bombs fell on the city throughout the night.
I slipped and almost fell down.
We heard the crash of falling trees.
[fall to the ground/floor] : He collapsed and fell to the ground.
[fall into/onto] : After work I just want to fall into bed and sleep.
The temperature has been falling steadily all day.
The programme was cancelled because of falling audience figures.
[fall by] : Industrial production has fallen by 10%.
[fall within/into] : Those items fall into the category of luxury goods.
[fall outside] : This question falls outside my area of expertise.
[fall asleep/ill] : Shortly before Christmas she fell ill.
[fall into] : I climbed into bed and fell into a deep sleep.
[fall into decay/disrepair/ruin/disuse] : The building gradually fell into decay.
The book fell open at a map of the city.
Christmas falls on a Saturday this year.
Divisions within the ruling party caused the government to fall.
[fall from power] : The General fell from power in 1955.
The city is expected to fall within days.
[fall to] : In the last election, the constituency fell to Labour.
[fall over/onto/to] : Her long black hair fell over her shoulders.

Synonyms

drop, go down, descend, plunge, plummet, reduce, decrease, collapse, abasement, abate, abatement, arrive, autumnal, back down, backslide, be casualty, be destroyed, be killed, be lost, be precipitated, be taken, become, befall, belly flop, bend, break down, breakdown, buckle, capitulate, capitulation, cascade, cataract, cave in, chance, clonk, come about, come down, come to pass, crash, cut, death, decline, declivity, defeat, defer to, degradation, depreciate, descent, descent; lowering, destruction, die, diminish, diminution, dip, disaster, dive, downfall, downgrade, downward slope, drag, droop, drop down, dwindle, dwindling, ease, eat dirt, ebb, failure, fall down, fall over, fall to pieces, falling off, flag, flop, fold up, give in, give up, give way, go head over heels, go under, gravitate, happen, header, hit the dirt, humiliation, incline, keel over, land, lapse, lessen, lessening, lie down, loss, nose dive, nose-dive, obey, occur, overthrow, pass into enemy hands, perish, pitch, pratfall, rapids, recede, recession, reduction, regress, relapse, resign, resignation, ruin, settle, sink, slant, slip, slope, slump, spill, spin, stumble, submit, subside, succumb, surrender, take a header, take place, thunk, tip over, topple, totter, trail, trip, trip over, tumble, wane, waterfall, whacked, whacking, white water, yield

Antonyms

accomplishment, achievement, advance, ascend, ascent, attain, building, climb, compliment, construction, creation, develop, development, disobey, elevation, enlarge, enlargement, evenness, expand, extend, fight, fighting, go up, grow, growth, increase, level, lose, overcome, overthrow, perfection, praise, progress, raise, reach, rise, scale, scaling, strengthen, success, win