fall in

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Verb

fall in

1. (intransitive) To collapse inwards.

   The heavy rain caused the roof to fall in.

2. (intransitive, military) Of a soldier, to get into position in a rank.
3. To come to an end; to terminate; to lapse.

   On the death of Mr. B., the annuity, which he had so long received, fell in.

4. To become operative.
   • 1841, Thomas Macaulay, Lord Byron and The Comic Dramatists of the Restoration

     The reversion, to which he had been nominated twenty years before, fell in.

Translations

• Russian: станови́ться в стро́й

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