Fall and Trough

Fall

Fall noun - The act of going down from an upright position suddenly and involuntarily.

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Trough and fall are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Trough" instead a noun "Fall".

Nearby Words: falling, fallen

Trough noun - A long hollow cylinder for carrying a substance (as a liquid or gas).

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Fall and trough are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Fall" instead a noun "Trough".

long fall

long trough

The protagonists of Max and Moritz (1865) by Wilhelm Busch break into a bakery, fall into a trough of dough and emerge completely covered in dough.

Source: Covered in Gunge
Covered in Gunge: While breaking into the bakery, Max and Moritz fall into a trough of dough and emerge completely covered in dough.◊All enveloped now in dough, See them, monuments of woe.

Source: Literature / Max and Moritz

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