User:Wietsezuyderwijk/Word file/to fall in
Phrasal verb edit
to fall in
- (intransitive) to collapse; break down
- "My world--the foreground of my consciousness--would fall in on me and crush me" (Ortega; 1905)
- (transitive) to join
- "On my way I fell in with an immense populace, crowding through every avenue, all in the same direction, and exhibiting in every action the wildest excitement." (Poe; 1844)
- (transitive) to grow deferent to
- "Yet — she was born and raised in the West Indies, and from hints she let fall in the past" (Howard; 1938)
- (transitive) to be charmed
- to collapse; break down
- "Lots of huts fell partially or completely in due to the earthquake."
- to join
- "Now a new dictatorship emerges, I might fall in with the resistance."