fall : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a part of Niagara Falls in western New York (north of Buffalo)
  

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• noun the highest waterfall; has more than one leap; flow varies seasonally
  Angel.
  

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• noun a part of Niagara Falls in Ontario
  Canadian Falls.
  

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• noun a famous waterfall in Venezuela
  Cuquenan; Kukenaam; Cuquenan Falls.
  

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• (Physics), that deviation from a strictly vertical line of descent which occurs in a body falling freely, in consequence of the rotation of the earth.

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• verb display excessive love or show excessive gratitude towards
  
  • This student falls all over her former professor when she sees him

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• verb lose one's emotional or mental composure
  go to pieces.
  
  • She fell apart when her only child died
• verb go to pieces
  break; wear out; wear; bust.
  
  • The lawn mower finally broke
  • The gears wore out
  • The old chair finally fell apart completely
• verb break or fall apart into fragments
  crumble.
  
  • The cookies crumbled
  • The Sphinx is crumbling
• verb become separated into pieces or fragments
  break; split up; come apart; separate.
  
  • The figurine broke
  • The freshly baked loaf fell apart

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• noun larva of a migratory American noctuid moth; destroys grasses and small grains
  Spodoptera frugiperda.
  

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• verb change from a waking to a sleeping state
  drowse off; drift off; flake out; drop off; nod off; dope off; doze off.
  
  • he always falls asleep during lectures

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• verb get worse
  drop off; drop away; slip.
  
  • My grades are slipping
• verb diminish in size or intensity
  fall away.
  

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• verb fall backwards and down
  
• verb hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.
  dawdle; fall back; lag.
  
• verb move back and away from
  
  • The enemy fell back
• verb retreat
  drop off; fall back; recede; lose.
  
• verb have recourse to
  resort; recur.
  
  • The government resorted to rationing meat
• verb go back to bad behavior
  retrogress; recidivate; relapse; lapse; regress.
  
  • Those who recidivate are often minor criminals

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• verb retreat
  drop off; fall back; recede; lose.
  
• verb hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.
  dawdle; fall back; lag.
  

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• verb give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat
  quit; throw in; drop out; throw in the towel; chuck up the sponge; give up; drop by the wayside.
  
  • In the second round, the challenger gave up

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• noun green or brown white-striped looper; larva of Alsophila pometaria
  

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• noun fall-blooming European herb with a yellow flower; naturalized in the United States
  arnica bud; Leontodon autumnalis.
  

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• verb lose an upright position suddenly
  fall.
  
  • The vase fell over and the water spilled onto the table
  • Her hair fell across her forehead

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• noun September 22
  autumnal equinox; September equinox.
  

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• verb fail utterly; collapse
  founder; flop; fall flat.
  
  • The project foundered

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• verb fall in love with; become infatuated with
  
  • She fell for the man from Brazil
• verb be deceived, duped, or entrapped by
  
  • He fell for her charms
  • He fell for the con man's story

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• verb revert back to bad behavior after a period of good behavior
  
  • The children fell from grace when they asked for several helpings of dessert

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• noun a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
  fool; soft touch; sucker; gull; patsy; mug; chump; mark.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a herring of the Atlantic (Clupea mediocris); also called tailor herring, and hickory shad.

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• verb break down, literally or metaphorically
  collapse; founder; give; give way; break; cave in.
  
  • The wall collapsed
  • The business collapsed
  • The dam broke
  • The roof collapsed
  • The wall gave in
  • The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice
• verb to take one's place in a military formation or line
  
  • Troops fall in!
• verb become part of; become a member of a group or organization
  join; get together.
  
  • He joined the Communist Party as a young man

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• verb agree on (a position)
  

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• verb begin to experience feelings of love towards
  
  • She fell in love with her former student

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• verb be included in or classified as
  fall into.
  
  • This falls under the rubric 'various'

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• verb become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions
  get through; get across; sink in; come home; penetrate; dawn; click.
  
  • It dawned on him that she had betrayed him
  • she was penetrated with sorrow

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• . To fall sequentially, as when one object in a line, by falling against the next object, causes it in turn to fall, and that second object causes a third to fall, etc.; the process can be repeated an indefinite number of times. Derived from an entertainment using dominoes arranged in a row, each standing on edge and therefore easily knocked over; when the first is made to fall against the next, it starts a sequence which ends when all have fallen. For amusement, people have arranged such sequences involving thousands of dominoes, arrayed in fanciful patterns.

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• noun (Judeo-Christian mythology) when Adam and Eve ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden, God punished them by driving them out of the Garden of Eden and into the world where they would be subject to sickness and pain and eventual death
  

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• verb come off
  
  • This button had fallen off
• verb fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly
  slump; sink.
  
  • The real estate market fell off
• verb diminish in size or intensity
  fall away.
  

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• verb open involuntarily
  drop open.
  
  • His mouth dropped open
  • Her jaw dropped

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• verb have a breach in relations
  
  • We fell out over a trivial question
• verb come as a logical consequence; follow logically
  follow.
  
  • It follows that your assertion is false
  • the theorem falls out nicely
• verb come off
  come out.
  
  • His hair and teeth fell out
• verb leave (a barracks) in order to take a place in a military formation, or leave a military formation
  
  • the soldiers fell out
• verb come to pass
  pass off; come about; pass; hap; happen; take place; occur; go on.
  
  • What is happening?
  • The meeting took place off without an incidence
  • Nothing occurred that seemed important

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• verb fall forward and down
  go over.
  
  • The old woman went over without a sound

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• verb try very hard to please someone
  bend over backwards.
  
  • She falls over backwards when she sees her mother-in-law

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• verb fail to meet (expectations or standards)
  come short.
  

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• verb fail to satisfy, as of expectations, for example
  

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• verb fail utterly; collapse
  founder; flop; fall flat.
  
  • The project foundered

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• verb be included in or classified as
  fall into.
  
  • This falls under the rubric 'various'

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• verb find unexpectedly
  happen upon; attain; come upon; chance upon; discover; light upon; come across; strike; chance on.
  
  • the archeologists chanced upon an old tomb
  • she struck a goldmine
  • The hikers finally struck the main path to the lake

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• noun a variety of webworm
  Hyphantria cunea.
  

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• adjective satellite of plants that bloom during the autumn
  late-flowering; fall-blooming; autumn-blooming; autumn-flowering; late-blooming.
  

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• noun deciduous shrub or small tree with pyramidal flower clusters
  Hydrangea paniculata.
  

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• noun the hinged protective covering that protects the keyboard of a piano when it is not being played
  fallboard.
  

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• adjective satellite of plants that bloom during the autumn
  late-flowering; fall-blooming; autumn-blooming; autumn-flowering; late-blooming.
  

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• noun an instep flattened so the entire sole rests on the ground
  sunken arch.
  

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• noun a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality
  slump; slack; falloff; drop-off.
  
  • the team went into a slump
  • a gradual slack in output
  • a drop-off in attendance
  • a falloff in quality

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• noun a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
  rift; severance; break; breach; rupture.
  
  • they hoped to avoid a break in relations

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• the tackle depending from the fish davit, used in hauling up the anchor to the gunwale of a ship.

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• noun the ideal falling motion of something subject only to a gravitational field
  
• noun a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
  drop; dip; fall.
  
  • a drop of 57 points on the Dow Jones index
  • there was a drop in pressure in the pulmonary artery
  • a dip in prices
  • when that became known the price of their stock went into free fall

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• noun a town in central Montana on the Missouri river; a center of extensive hydroelectric power
  

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• noun a great waterfall on the border between Brazil and Paraguay
  Guaira; Sete Quedas.
  

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• noun a part of Niagara Falls in Ontario
  Canadian Falls.
  

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• noun a town in southeastern Idaho on the Snake River
  

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• noun a large waterfall on the border between Argentina and Brazil
  Iguazu Falls; Iguassu Falls; Iguassu; Iguazu.
  

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• noun a large waterfall on the border between Argentina and Brazil
  Iguazu Falls; Iguassu Falls; Iguassu; Iguazu.
  

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Jaw"-fall`en adjective

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1. Dejected; chopfallen.

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• noun a town in southern Oregon near the California border
  

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• noun a famous waterfall in Venezuela
  Cuquenan; Kukenaam; Cuquenan Falls.
  

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Law"-fall` noun

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1. Depression of the jaw; hence, depression of spirits. M. Griffith (1660).

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• noun waterfall in Canada is the Horseshoe Falls; in the United States it is the American Falls
  Niagara.
  
• noun a city in western New York State at the falls of the Niagara river; tourist attraction and honeymoon resort
  

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• noun a major waterfall in northeastern Brazil
  Paulo Afonso.
  

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• noun largest city in South Dakota; located in southeastern South Dakota
  

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• (Naut.), falls or ropes rove through blocks for hoisting the blubber and bone of whales on board a whaling vessel.

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• the rope, or rather the end of the rope, of a tackle, to which the power is applied.

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Tear"-fall`ing adjective

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1. Shedding tears; tender. Poetic "Tear-falling pity." Shak.

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• the performance closes.

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• to quarrel; to be at strife.

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• etc. See under Come, Cut, Fall, Go, etc.

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• etc. See under Come, Cut, Fall, etc.

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• etc. See under Come, Cut, etc.

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• to come to nothing; to fail; to miscarry.

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• (Naut.), to slacken the tackle gently. Totten.

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• to strike a ship's side; to fall foul of.

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• (Naut.), to strike against; applied to one vessel coming into collision with another.

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• to come among accidentally or unexpectedly.

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• (Naut.), to move or be driven backward; to be left behind; as, a ship falls astern by the force of a current, or when outsailed by another.

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• . (a) To lose flesh; to become lean or emaciated; to pine. (b) To renounce or desert allegiance; to revolt or rebel. (c) To renounce or desert the faith; to apostatize. "These . . . for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away." Luke viii. 13. (d) To perish; to vanish; to be lost. "How . . . can the soul . . . fall away into nothing?" Addison. (e) To decline gradually; to fade; to languish, or become faint. "One color falls away by just degrees, and another rises insensibly." Addison.

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• . (a) To recede or retreat; to give way. (b) To fail of performing a promise or purpose; not to fulfill.

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• . (a) (Mil.) To retreat for safety to (a stronger position in the rear, as to a fort or a supporting body of troops). (b) To have recourse to (a reserved fund, or some available expedient or support).

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• to cease to blow; to become calm.

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• . (a) To prostrate one's self in worship. "All kings shall fall down before him." Ps. lxxii. 11. (b) To sink; to come to the ground. "Down fell the beauteous youth." Dryden. (c) To bend or bow, as a suppliant. (d) (Naut.) To sail or drift toward the mouth of a river or other outlet.

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• to produce no response or result; to fail of the intended effect; as, his speech fell flat.
• (Fig.), to produce no effect; to fail in the intended effect; as, his speech fell flat.

  Of all who fell by saber or by shot, Not one fell half so flat as Walter Scott. Lord Erskine.

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• to fall out; to quarrel. Obs. "If they be any ways offended, they fall foul." Burton.

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• . (a) (Naut.) To have a collision with; to become entangled with (b) To attack; to make an assault upon.

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• to recede or depart from; not to adhere to; as, to fall from an agreement or engagement; to fall from allegiance or duty.

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• (M. E. Ch.), to sin; to withdraw from the faith.

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• (Ship Carp.), to curve inward; said of the timbers or upper parts of a ship's side which are much within a perpendicular.

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• . (a) To sink inwards; as, the roof fell in. (b) (Mil.) To take one's proper or assigned place in line; as, to fall in on the right. (c) To come to an end; to terminate; to lapse; as, on the death of Mr. B., the annuuity, which he had so long received, fell in. (d) To become operative. "The reversion, to which he had been nominated twenty years before, fell in." Macaulay.

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• . (a) To meet with accidentally; as, to fall in with a friend. (b) (Naut.) To meet, as a ship; also, to discover or come near, as land. (c) To concur with; to agree with; as, the measure falls in with popular opinion. (d) To comply; to yield to. "You will find it difficult to persuade learned men to fall in with your projects." Addison.

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• to pass, often suddenly or unexpectedly, into one's ownership or control; as, to spike cannon when they are likely to fall into the hands of the enemy.

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• . (a) To drop; as, fruits fall off when ripe. (b) To withdraw; to separate; to become detached; as, friends fall off in adversity. "Love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide." Shak. (c) To perish; to die away; as, words fall off by disuse. (d) To apostatize; to forsake; to withdraw from the faith, or from allegiance or duty.

  Those captive tribes . . . fell offFrom God to worship calves.Milton.

  (e) To forsake; to abandon; as, his customers fell off. (f) To depreciate; to change for the worse; to deteriorate; to become less valuable, abundant, or interesting; as, a falling off in the wheat crop; the magazine or the review falls off. "O Hamlet, what a falling off was there!" Shak. (g) (Naut.) To deviate or trend to the leeward of the point to which the head of the ship was before directed; to fall to leeward.

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• . (a) To meet with; to light upon; as, we have fallen on evil days. (b) To begin suddenly and eagerly. "Fall on, and try the appetite to eat." Dryden. (c) To begin an attack; to assault; to assail. "Fall on, fall on, and hear him not." Dryden. (d) To drop on; to descend on.

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• . (a) To quarrel; to begin to contend.

  A soul exasperated in ills falls outWith everything, its friend, itself.Addison.

  (b) To happen; to befall; to chance. "There fell out a bloody quarrel betwixt the frogs and the mice." L'Estrange. (c) (Mil.) To leave the ranks, as a soldier.

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• . (a) To revolt; to desert from one side to another. (b) To fall beyond. Shak.

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• to be deficient; as, the corn falls short; they all fall short in duty.

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• to come to nothing; to fail; as, the engageent has fallen through.

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• to begin. "Fall to, with eager joy, on homely food." Dryden.

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• . (a) To come under, or within the limits of; to be subjected to; as, they fell under the jurisdiction of the emperor. (b) To come under; to become the subject of; as, this point did not fall under the cognizance or deliberations of the court; these things do not fall under human sight or observation. (c) To come within; to be ranged or reckoned with; to be subordinate to in the way of classification; as, these substances fall under a different class or order.

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• . (a) To attack. [See To fall on.] (b) To attempt; to have recourse to. "I do not intend to fall upon nice disquisitions." Holder. (c) To rush against.

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• to try a bout at wrestling. Shak.

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To-fall" noun

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1. (Arch.) A lean-to. See Lean-to.

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• noun a major waterfall in southern Africa; has more than one leap
  Tugela.
  

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• noun a waterfall in the Snake River in southern Idaho
  Twin.
  
• noun a town on the Snake River in south central Idaho near the Twin Falls
  

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• noun a waterfall in the Parana river in Brazil
  Urubupunga.
  

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• noun a waterfall in the Zambezi River on the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia; diminishes seasonally
  Victoria.
  
• noun a large waterfall on the border between Argentina and Brazil
  Iguazu Falls; Iguassu Falls; Iguassu; Iguazu.
  

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• noun a city in north central Texas near the Oklahoma border
  

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• noun a series of waterfalls in Yosemite National Park in California; is reduced to a trickle for part of each year
  Yosemite.
  

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