noun
- A personal or social separation (as between opposing factions. )
- usage: "they hoped to avoid a break in relations"
verb
- Have a breach in relations.
- usage: "We fell out over a trivial question"
- synonyms: fall out
- Come as a logical consequence; follow logically.
- usage: "It follows that your assertion is false"; "the theorem falls out nicely"
- Come off.
- usage: "His hair and teeth fell out"
- Leave (a barracks) in order to take a place in a military formation, or leave a military formation.
- usage: "the soldiers fell out"
- synonyms: fall out
- Come to pass.
- usage: "What is happening"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important"
- synonyms: happen, hap, go on, pass off, occur, pass, fall out, come about, take place
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