fall into
verb
Forms falls into falling into fell into fallen into
- verb (transitive, literally) To go into something by falling. “The cat might fall into the pool if you're not careful.”
- verb (transitive) To visit (a place or a person). “I hope to see her whenever I next fall into the area.”
- verb To enter a condition or state, especially a negative one. “After it closed, the old mall fell into disrepair.”
- verb (idiomatic, transitive) To enter something (especially a profession) without having planned it. “Most of us didn't plan to be designers; we just fell into the job.”
- verb (idiomatic, transitive) To be classified as; to fall under. “Trees fall into two main categories: deciduous and evergreen.”
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Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “fall into”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details