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fall out en · NOUN

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1. Synonym of falling out (“rift following a disagreement or quarrel”).
   • I've had a fall out with Nora, one of my tenants. She's packing up and leaving at this very moment. 2019, Angela Barton, Magnolia House:
   • We had a fall out, couldn't come to terms and haven't talked since.

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falling out

fall out en · VERB

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1. (literally) To come out of something by falling.
   • Part of No. 10 platform at Kings Cross was cordoned off on August 23 after a container of radio-active material had fallen from a trolley. The special box in which it was packed split open, allowing the container to fall out. 1956 October, “Notes and News: Radioactivity at Kings Cross”, in Railway Magazine, page 711:
   • I opened the cupboard and a can fell out onto my foot.
2. (idiomatic, intransitive) To cease to be on friendly terms.
   • Before the incident Robins had fallen out with Knutton, 30. Knutton had made a complaint over Robins' boyfriend. 2011 December 14, Steven Morris, “Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave”, in Guardian:
   • Petronius calleth this paſſion [i.e., jealousy] amantium furioſam æmulationem, a furious emulation, and their ſymptomes are well expreſſed by Sʳ Ieffrey Chaucer in his firſt Canterbury tale. It will make the neareſt & deareſt friends fall out; they will endure al other things to be common, goods, lands, moneyes, participate of all other pleaſures, and take in good part any diſgraces, iniuries in another kind, but as Propertius well deſcribes it in an Elegie of his, in this they will ſuffer nothing, have no corriuals. 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Iealousie, His Equivocations, Name, Definition, Extent, Seuerall Kindes, of Princes, Parents, Friends. In Beasts, Men, before Marriage, as Corriuals, or after, as in this Place”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 3, section 3, member 1, subsection 1, pages 465–466:
   • Dave and I fell out after a long argument.
3. (intransitive, literally) To leave one's place in the current formation of ranks in order to take one's place in a new formation.
4. (figuratively, intransitive) To leave one's current location to report for duty at a new location.
   • The company fell out for an artillery drill.
5. (dialectal, intransitive) To pass out.
6. (dated) To turn out, happen.
   • For days Ailie had an absent eye and a sad face, and it so fell out that in all that time young Heriotside, who had scarce missed a day, was laid up with a broken arm and never came near her. 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
   • I expected to be in the States long before this, but things fell out otherwise. 1866, Mark Twain, in a letter to William Bowen, 7 May 1866
   • Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land. 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 1:10:
7. (intransitive, obsolete, of type) To fall off due to the quoins holding it in place having become wet and therefore loose.
8. (intransitive, qualifier:Of a trapdoor or similar) To give way under someone.
   • The board he was walking on fell out.
9. (figuratively, intransitive, qualifier:Of the ground; floor; snow; a worldview or foundation; Of the ground; floor; snow; a worldview or foundation, usually) To cause someone to slip and/or fall down.
   • The ground fell out from under him.
   • When she left him, his world fell out beneath him.
10. (intransitive, slang) To be enthusiastic about something; to laugh very hard.
    • When the band started, everybody fell out.
11. (intransitive, slang) To depart.
12. (intransitive, qualifier:African-American Vernacular, slang) To collapse; to pass out from intoxication.
13. (intransitive, qualifier:African-American Vernacular, slang) To be shocked by something.

Forms

Deriveds

fall-out · falling-out · falling out · fallout

Relateds

fall down · fall out upon · fall out of flesh · fall out of lease · fall away · fall off

Synonyms

drop out · drop out

Translations (50)

hu összeveszik (cease to be on friendly terms) · la excidō (come out by falling) · de ausgehen (come out by falling) · hu összevész (cease to be on friendly terms) · ru вы́пасть (come out by falling) · gd rach a-mach air (cease to be on friendly terms) · cs vypadnout (come out by falling) · es querellarse (cease to be on friendly terms) · fr brouiller avec (cease to be on friendly terms) · ru выпада́ть (come out by falling) · es malquistarse (cease to be on friendly terms) · az arası dəymək (cease to be on friendly terms) · te విడిపోవు (cease to be on friendly terms) · pt brigar (cease to be on friendly terms) · az bir-birindən küsmək (cease to be on friendly terms) · ru поссо́риться (cease to be on friendly terms) · es encizañarse (cease to be on friendly terms) · got 𐌿𐍃𐌳𐍂𐌹𐌿𐍃𐌰𐌽 (come out by falling) · fi erota (cease to be on friendly terms) · es cismarse (cease to be on friendly terms) · pl poróżnić się (cease to be on friendly terms) · az küsüşmək (cease to be on friendly terms) · es cizañearse (cease to be on friendly terms) · cmn 鬧翻 /闹翻 (cease to be on friendly terms) · gd rach a throd (cease to be on friendly terms) · nl in onmin raken (cease to be on friendly terms) · pl wypaść (come out by falling) · pl wypadać (come out by falling) · cmn 掉出來 /掉出来 (come out by falling) · es desavenirse (cease to be on friendly terms) · de ausfallen (come out by falling) · es desconcertarse (cease to be on friendly terms) · hu kihullik (come out by falling) · es desaficionarse (cease to be on friendly terms) · fi irrota (come out by falling) · hu kiesik (come out by falling) · sv falla ut (come out by falling) · eo malamikiĝi (cease to be on friendly terms) · hy գժտվել (cease to be on friendly terms) · ru ссо́риться (cease to be on friendly terms) · hu hajba kap (cease to be on friendly terms) · uk посвари́тися (cease to be on friendly terms) · pl poróżniać się (cease to be on friendly terms) · eo elfali (come out by falling) · fi pudota (come out by falling) · es caerse (come out by falling) · es cizañarse (cease to be on friendly terms) · tl warlahin (cease to be on friendly terms) · sv söndras (cease to be on friendly terms) · az bir-birindən incimək (cease to be on friendly terms)