

Professor Peter Crome, chair of the audit's steering group, said the report "provides further concrete evidence that the care of patients with dementia in hospital is in need of a radical shake-up".# To ascend on a musical scale to take a higher pitch., passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again # To become more and more dignified or forcible to increase in interest or power said of style, thought, or discourse.# Of a quantity, price, etc., to increase.Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.among the rising theologians of Germany.( label) To increase in value or standing.It was near ninebefore the House rose.# (figurative) To terminate an official sitting to adjourn.He that would thrive must rise by five.# To become erect to assume an upright position.And then I thought of all the barrels piled up in the vault and of the liquor that they held and stuck not because 'twas spirit, for I would scarce have paused to sate that thirst even with molten lead. And still the hours passed, and at last I knew by the glimmer of light in the tomb above that the sun had risen again, and a maddening thirst had hold of me.# (of a celestial body) To appear to move upwards from behind the horizon of a planet as a result of the planet's rotation.# To grow upward to attain a certain height.( label) To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.To morrow in the battaile thinke on me, / And fall thy edgeleſſe ſword, diſpaire and die. Thus night fell, and thus we passed the rest of it. At 3 in the afternoon the breeze came up from the S with a thick drizzle. Shortly afterwards a breeze came up from the N dark clouds closing in over everything. 1971, Henry Raup Wagner, Spanish Explorations in the Strait of Juan de Fuca:.There! on the table, lay the Jewel of Seven Stars, shining and sparkling with lurid light, as though each of the seven points of each of the seven stars gleamed through blood! 1904, Bram Stoker, The Jewel of Seven Stars, page 248:Īnd then a sudden calm fell on us like a cloud of fear.Each time, however, we ascertained that we had no occasion for alarm, the noise being made by some animal or bird. Once or twice a noise fell upon his quick ear, and we halted, he standing revolver in hand in an attitude of defense.


To move to a lower position under the effect of gravity.( heading, intransitive ) To be moved downwards.( General Australian ) IPA ( key): /fo(ː)l/įall ( third-person singular simple present falls, present participle falling, simple past fell, past participle fallen)Ī sign warning about the danger of falling rocks.( cot– caught merger ) enPR: fäl, IPA ( key): /fɑl/.( General American ) enPR: fôl, IPA ( key): /fɔl/.( Received Pronunciation ) enPR: fôl, IPA ( key): /fɔːl/.Compare spring, which began as a shortening of “spring of the leaf”. Along with autumn, it mostly replaced the older name harvest as that name began to be associated strictly with the act of harvesting. Sense of "autumn" is attested by the 1660s in England as a shortening of fall of the leaf (1540s), from the falling of leaves during this season. Cognate with Dutch val, German Fall ( “ fall ” ) and German Falle ( “ trap, snare ” ), Danish fald, Swedish fall, Icelandic fall. Noun from Middle English fal, fall, falle, from Old English feall, ġefeall ( “ a falling, fall ” ) and Old English fealle ( “ trap, snare ” ), from Proto-Germanic *fallą, *fallaz ( “ a fall, trap ” ). Verb from Middle English fallen, from Old English feallan ( “ to fall, fail, decay, die, attack ” ), from Proto-West Germanic *fallan ( “ to fall ” ), from Proto-Germanic *fallaną ( “ to fall ” ).Ĭognate with West Frisian falle ( “ to fall ” ), Low German fallen ( “ to fall ” ), Dutch vallen ( “ to fall ” ), German fallen ( “ to fall ” ), Danish falde ( “ to fall ” ), Norwegian Bokmål falle ( “ to fall ” ), Norwegian Nynorsk falla ( “ to fall ” ), Icelandic falla ( “ to fall ” ), Albanian fal ( “ forgive, pray, salute, greet ” ), Lithuanian pùlti ( “ to attack, rush ” ).
