fallenadjective [ before noun ]
uk/ˈfɔː.lən/us/ˈfɑː.lən/fallen adjective [ before noun ] (LYING ON GROUND)
lying on the ground, after falling down:
A fallen tree was blocking the road.
having dropped down:
fallen leaves
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Reclining
- full-length
- lain
- lay
- lean
- lean (sth) against/on sth
- lie around
- lounge
- lounge around (sth)
- prone
- recline
- recumbent
- repose
- sink
- sit
- spreadeagled
- stretch
- stretch (yourself) out
- sup
- supinate
- supination
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Down and downward
fallen adjective [ before noun ] (DEFEATED)
used to refer to someone who has been defeated or has lost a position of power:
The Education Minister will now join the ranks of other fallen politicians.
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Losing and being defeated
- admit
- battering
- capitulate
- defeat
- downfall
- drubbing
- give
- give in
- go
- go down
- knuckle under
- leave, go off, etc. with your tail between your legs idiom
- lose
- say
- squeaker
- tail
- throw
- throw in the towel idiom 1
- tie
- you win! idiom
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fallennoun [ plural ]
uk/ˈfɔː.lən/us/ˈfɑː.lən/formalthe fallen
soldiers who have died in a war:
a statue in memory of the fallen
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Death and dying
- be pushing up (the) daisies idiom
- bereave
- bite
- bury
- buy the farm idiom
- deceased
- depart
- done
- drop
- expire
- foot
- gone
- inquest
- loss
- peg
- posthumous
- road kill
- SIDS
- sudden infant death syndrome
- the disappeared
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