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Noun fall-out has 2 senses
- fallout, radioactive dust - the radioactive particles that settle to the ground after a nuclear explosion
--1 is a kind of dust
- side effect, fallout - any adverse and unwanted secondary effect; "a strategy to contain the fallout from the accounting scandal"
--2 is a kind of consequence, effect, outcome, result, event, issue, upshot
Verb fall-out has 5 senses
- fall out - have a breach in relations; "We fell out over a trivial question"
--1 is one way to quarrel, dispute, scrap, argufy, altercate
Sample sentences:
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Somebody ----s PP
- follow, fall out - come as a logical consequence; follow logically; "It follows that your assertion is false"; "the theorem falls out nicely"
--2 is one way to result, ensue
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
It ----s that CLAUSE
- come out, pop out, fall out - come forth or out; "You stick the coins in, but they come out again"; "His hair and teeth fell out"
--3 is one way to issue, emerge, come out, come forth, go forth, egress
Sample sentence:
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- fall out - leave (a barracks, for example) in order to take a place in a military formation, or leave a military formation; "the soldiers fell out"
--4 is one way to exit, go out, get out, leave
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- happen, hap, go on, pass off, occur, pass, fall out, come about, take place - come to pass; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important"
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Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
It ----s that CLAUSE
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