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Synonyms for Fall (same or very similar meaning)

WordNet sense 1 (the season when the leaves fall from the trees):
autumn

WordNet sense 2 (the time of day immediately following sunset):
dusk, gloaming, nightfall, twilight, gloam, crepuscle, crepuscule, evenfall

WordNet sense 3 (a downward slope or bend):
declension, declination, decline, declivity, descent, downslope

WordNet sense 4 (when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat):
pin

WordNet sense 5 (a sudden decline in strength or number or importance):
downfall

WordNet sense 6 (a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity):
drop

WordNet sense 7 (a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity):
dip, free fall

WordNet sense 8 (fall from clouds):
precipitate, precipitate, come down

WordNet sense 9 (come under, be classified or included):
come

WordNet sense 10 (touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly):
shine, strike

WordNet sense 11 (come into the possession of):
accrue

WordNet sense 12 (fall to somebody by assignment or lot):
light

WordNet sense 13 (be inherited by):
devolve, pass, return

WordNet sense 14 (lose an upright position suddenly):
fall down

WordNet sense 15 (move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way):
descend, go down

WordNet sense 16 (fall or flow in a certain way):
flow, hang

WordNet sense 17 (come as if by falling):
settle

WordNet sense 18 (decrease in size, extent, or range):
decrease, diminish, lessen, decrease

WordNet sense 19 (a sudden drop from an upright position):
spill, tumble

WordNet sense 20 (the act of surrendering (under agreed conditions)):
capitulation, surrender


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