Fall and Wake up

Fall

Fall verb - To go down from an upright position suddenly and involuntarily.

Wake up is an antonym for fall.

Nearby Words: falling, fallen

Wake up

Wake up verb - Stop sleeping.

Fall is an antonym for wake up in topics: get, stimulate.

Both terms in one sentence

  • Press X to Die For vital NPCs, because they cannot die, they will fall from loss of HP, wake up, and fall unconscious again.
  • People Fall Off Chairs Inverted in Inception — pushing someone off a chair is used to trigger a huge shock (causing a sleeping person to wake up), rather than a huge shock causing someone to fall off a chair.
  • Please Wake Up Occurs in The Fall, when Alexandria tries to wake up Roy, after he falls asleep, having taken "sleeping pills" that we later find out are placebos.
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