fall out
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.11 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Synonym of falling out (“rift following a disagreement or quarrel”).
verb
To leave one's place in the current formation of ranks in order to take one's place in a new formation.
Intransitive verb
Example Sentences
- "We had a fall out, couldn't come to terms and haven't talked since."
- "I've had a fall out with Nora, one of my tenants. She's packing up and leaving at this very moment."
- "I opened the cupboard and a can fell out onto my foot."
- "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."
- "Dave and I fell out after a long argument."
- "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."