fallen

[FallĀ·en]

Something that's fallen has dropped to the ground. You might collect fallen apples to make into cider or applesauce.

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Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead.

Adjective S.
killed in battle; "to honor fallen soldiers"

Adjective S.
having lost your chastity; "a fallen woman"

Adjective S.
having fallen in or collapsed; "a fallen building"

Adjective S.
having dropped by the force of gravity; "fallen leaves covered the forest floor"; "sat on a fallen tree trunk"


p. p.
of Fall

a.
Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead.


Fallen

Fall"en , a. Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead.
Some ruined temple or fallen monument.

Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead.

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Usage Examples

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.

I tell girls all the time that the men that have fallen in love with me, have all fallen during a man repeller stage... funny how life works out like that.

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.

Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse.

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.

I'm always told that what I say is controversial. Why is it controversial? Because I speak from a tradition that has now fallen out of favor with the dominant media in this country. And so when I say things like marriage should be between one man and one woman, I'm called a bigot.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.

I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up.

In politics, the number of women in the cabinet has fallen and, if current poll trends continue and Labour loses a number of marginal seats, the number of female MPs is likely to drop significantly.

I'd fallen in love with a woman but she broke up with me and I was devastated. Six months later, I went into a suicidal depression from the break-up of the relationship, but I resolved to not do what my friends had done. And so I reached out for help.

As we continue to fight the War on Terror, it is imperative that we protect America's fallen heroes by ensuring that they are treated with respect, while being laid to rest.

However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson nothing is impossible.

I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves.

If the graves of the thousands of victims who have fallen in the terrible wars of the two races had been placed in line the philanthropist might travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, and be constantly in sight of green mounds.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

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