falling down
Tumbling toward ground
Falling down describes the act of losing balance and dropping to the ground, or something collapsing from an upright position: The toddler kept falling down on the ice.
It also describes things in a state of disrepair: a falling-down barn.
The hyphenated form typically functions as an adjective before nouns.
- tumbleUncontrolled rolling descent
- gravityMutual mass attraction
- collapseSudden structural failure
- plungeSudden steep descent
- Alice in WonderlandFantasy tale of curious girl
slip · take a spill · crumble · topple · vertigo · keel over · crash · hit the ground · staggering · drunk as a skunk · cave-in · house of cards · fracture · trip · accident · drop · slide · rain
- slapstickpratfall, banana peel, pie throw, custard pie, slapstick
- Visual Comedyslapstick, pratfall, pratfalls, sight gag, sight gags
- drunkennessdrunk, tipsy, buzzed, intoxicated, inebriated
- drunk slangdrunk, wasted, hammered, smashed, plastered
- Faintingfainting, syncope, passing out, blackouts, swooning
falling downgetting up
Transition from prone to standing
standing up · rising · standing · rising up · climbing
falling downstaying up
Remaining awake past bedtime
holding together · holding up · going up · under construction · enduring
falling downsucceeding
Attaining aims or following
rising to the occasion · coming through · holding up · delivering · thriving
fall, down, fell, fallen, falling, falls, downfall, waterfall, befall