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Princeton's WordNet

  1. fall forverb

    fall in love with; become infatuated with

    "She fell for the man from Brazil"

  2. fall forverb

    be deceived, duped, or entrapped by

    "He fell for her charms"; "He fell for the con man's story"

Wiktionary

  1. fall forverb

    To be fooled; to walk into a trap or respond to a scam or trick.

  2. fall forverb

    To fall in love with someone.

ChatGPT

  1. fall for

    To "fall for" generally means to be deceived by or to begin having romantic feelings towards someone or something. In the context of deception, it refers to being tricked into believing something that is not true. In the context of romance, it refers to the process of developing love or deep affection for someone.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of fall for in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of fall for in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of fall for in a Sentence

  1. Vladimir Ashurkov:

    It's not an easy road to get some of the most powerful people under the sanctions regime. So if you don't fall for illusions, you don't get disillusioned. It just means that we need to work harder.

  2. Shire Ali:

    I feel guilty about that, i was protecting someone else. And he [Mahdi] ended up taking the fall for something he didn’t end up doing… I was young at the time. I had a lot of people in my ear, close family friends, closer than Mahdi. He ended up becoming the scapegoat.

  3. Craig James:

    Over the last six weeks, petrol prices have fallen by 21 cents a litre - the biggest fall for an equivalent period in six years.

  4. Andrew Wilkinson:

    In the meantime, on the back of a big fall, for stocks it looks like people are regrouping again today.

  5. Jeff Asher:

    We have a tendency to want to blame one person, or credit one person, when in reality these are complex systems that rise and fall for often complex, random reasons that we don’t have the ability to explain – but it’s easier to say, ‘It was Joe Schmoe over there,’.


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