fallin'とは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

fall in (third-person singular simple present falls in, present participle falling in, simple past fell in, past participle fallen in)

1. (intransitive) To collapse inwards.

   The heavy rain caused the roof to fall in.

2. (intransitive, military) Of a soldier, to get into position in a rank.
   • 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter V, in Great Expectations […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 68:

     His men resumed their muskets and fell in.

3. To come to an end; to terminate; to lapse.

   On the death of Mr. B., the annuity, which he had so long received, fell in.

4. To become operative.
   • 1841, Thomas Macaulay, Lord Byron and The Comic Dramatists of the Restoration:

     The reversion, to which he had been nominated twenty years before, fell in.