verb/ʃwaʁ/
to fall
“L'abandonnerez-vous à l'infâme couteau Qui fait choir les méchants sous la main d'un bourreau ?” — Would you abandon him to the infamous blade Which makes the wicked fall under the headman's hand?
Synonyms: tomber
Related: chute, déchoir, échoir, méchoir, rechoir
Inherited from Middle French cheoir, from Old French cheoir, from older chedeir, from Late Latin cadēre, from Latin cadĕre, from Proto-Italic *kadō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱh₂d- (“to fall”).