fall over

1. 1.

   fall forward and down

   “The old woman went over without a sound”

   Synonymsgo over

   Broaderbreak down

Questions about fall over

What does fall over mean?

fall over means "fall forward and down".

What is another word for fall over?

Close synonyms include go over. 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 over a common word?

fall over 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.