Verb

• S: (v) sink, settle, go down, go under (go under) "The raft sank and its occupants drowned"
• S: (v) set, go down, go under (disappear beyond the horizon) "the sun sets early these days"
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• S: (v) descend, fall, go down, come down (move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way) "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again"
• S: (v) prolapse (slip or fall out of place, as of body parts) "prolapsed rectum"
• S: (v) rappel, abseil, rope down (descend by means of a rappel) "The ascent was easy--roping down the mountain would be much more difficult and dangerous"; "You have to learn how to abseil when you want to do technical climbing"
• S: (v) unhorse, dismount, light, get off, get down (alight from (a horse))
• S: (v) avalanche, roll down (gather into a huge mass and roll down a mountain, of snow)
• S: (v) dive, plunge, plunk (drop steeply) "the stock market plunged"
• S: (v) set, go down, go under (disappear beyond the horizon) "the sun sets early these days"
• S: (v) decline, slump, correct (go down in value) "the stock market corrected"; "prices slumped"
• S: (v) precipitate (fall vertically, sharply, or headlong) "Our economy precipitated into complete ruin"
• S: (v) sink, subside (descend into or as if into some soft substance or place) "He sank into bed"; "She subsided into the chair"
• S: (v) crash (fall or come down violently) "The branch crashed down on my car"; "The plane crashed in the sea"
• S: (v) flop (fall suddenly and abruptly)
• S: (v) tumble, topple (fall down, as if collapsing) "The tower of the World Trade Center tumbled after the plane hit it"
• S: (v) drop (to fall vertically) "the bombs are dropping on enemy targets"
• S: (v) plop (drop with the sound of something falling into water)
• S: (v) pitch (fall or plunge forward) "She pitched over the railing of the balcony"
• S: (v) alight, climb down (come down) "the birds alighted"
• S: (v) sink, settle, go down, go under (go under) "The raft sank and its occupants drowned"
• S: (v) pounce, swoop (move down on as if in an attack) "The raptor swooped down on its prey"; "The teacher swooped down upon the new students"
• S: (v) drip (fall in drops) "Water is dripping from the faucet"
• S: (v) cascade, cascade down (rush down in big quantities, like a cascade)
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• W: (v) rise [Opposed to: set] (come up, of celestial bodies) "The sun also rises"; "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..."; "Jupiter ascends"
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• S: (v) go by, go under (be called; go by a certain name) "She goes by her maiden name again"
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