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falls

/fɔlz/ noun A2
  1. A waterfall. · Niagara Falls

Plural falls

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d’Avrigny, with a slow and solemn tone, “if anyone falls ill in your house, if you feel yourself attacked, do not send for me, for I will come no more.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 822 · C1
Now it is well known that when there are many of these flowers together their odor is so powerful that anyone who breathes it falls asleep, and if the sleeper is not carried away from the scent of the flowers, he sleeps on and on forever.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 49 · B2
Five minutes afterwards the curtain falls, and the spectators depart.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 527 · C1
Three days afterwards, this poor vulture, which has been very much indisposed since that dinner, suddenly feels very giddy while flying aloft in the clouds, and falls heavily into a fish-pond.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 530 · C1

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