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Noun falling out has 1 sense

rupture, breach, break, severance, rift, falling out - a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions); "they hoped to avoid a break in relations"
--₁ is a kind of separation, breakup, detachment

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
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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
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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
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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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