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Overview of noun fall_out

The noun fallout has 2 senses


  • fallout, radioactive dust -- (the radioactive particles that settle to the ground after a nuclear explosion)

  • side effect, fallout -- (any adverse and unwanted secondary effect; "a strategy to contain the fallout from the accounting scandal")


Overview of verb fall_out

The verb fall out has 5 senses


  • fall out -- (have a breach in relations; "We fell out over a trivial question")

  • follow, fall out -- (come as a logical consequence; follow logically; "It follows that your assertion is false"; "the theorem falls out nicely")

  • come out, fall out -- (come off; "His hair and teeth fell out")

  • fall out -- (leave (a barracks) in order to take a place in a military formation, or leave a military formation; "the soldiers fell out")

  • 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")