[
UK
/fˈɔːlən/
]
[ US /ˈfɑɫən/ ]
[ US /ˈfɑɫən/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
having fallen in or collapsed
a fallen building -
having lost your chastity
a fallen woman
a fallen woman -
killed in battle
to honor fallen soldiers -
having dropped by the force of gravity
sat on a fallen tree trunk
fallen leaves covered the forest floor
How To Use fallen In A Sentence
- She strode over to a couple of fallen logs and kicked one of them.
- Olivia notes the direction of his gaze, and realizes her robe has fallen open again.
- The resident population of mental hospitals has fallen by 20%.
- I've got a face like a punctured beachball, like an arse that's fallen downstairs, like a rucksack full of dented bells. Charlie Brooker's Screen burn: What Not To Wear
- Cultural practices have survived or fallen only in part because of their effect on the strength of the group, and those which have survived are usually burdened with unnecessary impedimenta.
- The adolescent and teenage birth rate has fallen by nearly half since 1992.
- I'm looking for a doings to hold up a curtain rail that's fallen down.
- However, the mutilation of the monuments indicate that she had fallen from grace.
- We spent a misty day walking through the forests around Forsmark, where the newly fallen snow held the paw prints of lynx and the big M-shaped hoof marks of moose.
- Let's pile up the fallen leaves in the corner and sweep up the floor.