fall down

1. 1.

   lose an upright position suddenly

   “The vase fell over and the water spilled onto the table”

   “Her hair fell across her forehead”

   Synonymsfall

   Broaderchange posture

Questions about fall down

What does fall down mean?

fall down means "lose an upright position suddenly".

What is another word for fall down?

Close synonyms include fall. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fall down a common word?

fall down is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.