| befall | (verb) happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance | Synonyms: bechance, happen |
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| (verb) become of; happen to | Synonyms: bechance, betide |
| downfall | (noun) a sudden decline in strength or number or importance | Synonyms: fall |
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| (noun) failure that results in a loss of position or reputation | Synonyms: ruin, ruination |
| (noun) the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist) | Synonyms: precipitation |
| evenfall | (noun) the time of day immediately following sunset | Synonyms: crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilight |
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| fall | (noun) a sudden drop from an upright position | Synonyms: spill, tumble |
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| (noun) the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions) | Synonyms: capitulation, surrender |
| (noun) a lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity | - |
| (noun) a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity | Synonyms: dip, drop, free fall |
| (noun) a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity | Synonyms: drop |
| (noun) a sudden decline in strength or number or importance | Synonyms: downfall |
| (noun) when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat | Synonyms: pin |
| (noun) a movement downward | - |
| (noun) a downward slope or bend | Synonyms: declension, declination, decline, declivity, descent, downslope |
| (noun) the season when the leaves fall from the trees | Synonyms: autumn |
| (noun) the time of day immediately following sunset | Synonyms: crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilight |
| (verb) occur at a specified time or place | - |
| (verb) decrease in size, extent, or range | Synonyms: decrease, diminish, lessen |
| (verb) pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind | - |
| (verb) be born, used chiefly of lambs | - |
| (verb) come out; issue | - |
| (verb) assume a disappointed or sad expression | - |
| (verb) begin vigorously | - |
| (verb) come as if by falling | Synonyms: descend, settle |
| (verb) be cast down | - |
| (verb) go as if by falling | - |
| (verb) fall or flow in a certain way | Synonyms: flow, hang |
| (verb) move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way | Synonyms: come down, descend, go down |
| (verb) move in a specified direction | - |
| (verb) descend in free fall under the influence of gravity | - |
| (verb) slope downward | - |
| (verb) drop oneself to a lower or less erect position | - |
| (verb) lose an upright position suddenly | Synonyms: fall down |
| (verb) to be given by assignment or distribution | - |
| (verb) be captured | - |
| (verb) fall to somebody by assignment or lot; passed | Synonyms: light |
| (verb) come into the possession of | Synonyms: accrue |
| (verb) to be given by right or inheritance | - |
| (verb) be inherited by | Synonyms: devolve, pass, return |
| (verb) lose office or power | - |
| (verb) yield to temptation or sin | - |
| (verb) suffer defeat, failure, or ruin | - |
| (verb) lose one's chastity | - |
| (verb) die, as in battle or in a hunt | - |
| (verb) be due | - |
| (verb) come under, be classified or included | Synonyms: come |
| (verb) touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly | Synonyms: shine, strike |
| (verb) fall from clouds | Synonyms: come down, precipitate |
| footfall | (noun) the sound of a step of someone walking | Synonyms: footstep, step |
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| icefall | (noun) a steep part of a glacier resembling a frozen waterfall | - |
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| landfall | (noun) the first sighting of land from the sea after a voyage (or flight over water) | - |
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| (noun) the seacoast first sighted on a voyage (or flight over water) | - |
| nightfall | (noun) the time of day immediately following sunset | Synonyms: crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, twilight |
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| outfall | (noun) the outlet of a river or drain or other source of water | - |
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| pitfall | (noun) a trap in the form of a concealed hole | Synonyms: pit |
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| (noun) an unforeseen or unexpected or surprising difficulty | Synonyms: booby trap |
| pratfall | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup |
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| (noun) a fall onto your buttocks | - |
| rainfall | (noun) water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere | Synonyms: rain |
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| shortfall | (noun) the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required | Synonyms: deficit, shortage |
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| snowfall | (noun) precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals | Synonyms: snow |
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| waterfall | (noun) a steep descent of the water of a river | Synonyms: falls |
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| windfall | (noun) a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money) | Synonyms: bonanza, boom, bunce, godsend, gold rush, gravy, manna from heaven |
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| (noun) fruit that has fallen from the tree | - |