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FALL OUT
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Come to pass
Example:
Nothing occurred that seemed important
Synonyms:
come about; fall out; go on; hap; happen; occur; pass; pass off; take place
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "fall out"):
contemporise; contemporize; synchronise; synchronize (happen at the same time)
turn out (prove to be in the result or end)
fall; shine; strike (touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly)
break (happen or take place)
chance (be the case by chance)
backfire; backlash; recoil (come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect)
coincide; concur (happen simultaneously)
bechance; befall; betide (become of; happen to)
bechance; befall; happen (happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance)
happen; materialise; materialize (come into being; become reality)
come around; roll around (happen regularly)
come off; go off; go over (happen in a particular manner)
recur; repeat (happen or occur again)
develop (be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest)
anticipate (be a forerunner of or occur earlier than)
fall (occur at a specified time or place)
come (come to pass; arrive, as in due course)
go; proceed (follow a certain course)
supervene (take place as an additional or unexpected development)
give (occur)
transpire (come about, happen, or occur)
intervene (occur between other event or between certain points of time)
result (come about or follow as a consequence)
arise; come up (result or issue)
break; develop; recrudesce (happen)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
It ----s that CLAUSE
Sense 2
Meaning:
Have a breach in relations
Example:
We fell out over a trivial question
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "fall out" is one way to...):
altercate; argufy; dispute; quarrel; scrap (have a disagreement over something)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 3
Meaning:
Leave (a barracks) in order to take a place in a military formation, or leave a military formation
Example:
the soldiers fell out
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "fall out" is one way to...):
exit; get out; go out; leave (move out of or depart from)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Sense 4
Meaning:
Come off
Example:
His hair and teeth fell out
Synonyms:
come out; fall out
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "fall out" is one way to...):
come forth; come out; egress; emerge; go forth; issue (come out of)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sense 5
Meaning:
Come as a logical consequence; follow logically
Example:
the theorem falls out nicely
Synonyms:
fall out; follow
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "fall out" is one way to...):
ensue; result (issue or terminate (in a specified way, state, etc.); end)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
It ----s that CLAUSE
Context examples:
This date will not be the time to shake the tree to see if any coconuts fall out, for they will, and bounce on your head.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
At night when the sleeping princess was again carried through the streets, some peas certainly did fall out of her pocket, but they made no track, for the crafty manikin had just before scattered peas in every street there was.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
