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fallen

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fall·en  (fôln)
v.
Past participle of fall.
fallen
Verb
the past participle of fall
Adjective
1. Old-fashioned (of a woman) having had sex outside marriage
2. killed in battle
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Adj.1.fallenfallen - having dropped by the force of gravity; "fallen leaves covered the forest floor"; "sat on a fallen tree trunk"
down - being or moving lower in position or less in some value; "lay face down"; "the moon is down"; "our team is down by a run"; "down by a pawn"; "the stock market is down today"
2.fallenfallen - having fallen in or collapsed; "a fallen building"
destroyed - spoiled or ruined or demolished; "war left many cities destroyed"; "Alzheimer's is responsible for her destroyed mind"
3.fallenfallen - having lost your chastity; "a fallen woman"
unchaste - not chaste; "unchaste conduct"
4.fallenfallen - killed in battle; "to honor fallen soldiers"
dead - no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life; "the nerve is dead"; "a dead pallor"; "he was marked as a dead man by the assassin"
fallen
adjective 1. killed, lost, dead, slaughtered, slain, perished
adjective 2. dishonoured, lost, loose, shamed, ruined, disgraced, immoral, sinful, unchaste


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Yet this strangest of all things that ever came to earth from outer space must have fallen while I was sitting there, visible to me had I only looked up as it passed.
The War Of The Worlds by Wells, H.G. View in context
One who practices sleeping in the woods with nothing under him but the dry leaves and the damp earth, and nothing over him but the branches from which the leaves have fallen and the sky from which the earth has fallen, cannot hope for great longevity, and Frayser had already attained the age of thirty-two.
Can Such Things Be? by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
A WEARY Traveller who had lain down and fallen asleep on the brink of a deep well was discovered by Dame Fortune.
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