All hit the dirt synonyms

verb hit the dirt

• drag — drag and drop
• abate — If something bad or undesirable abates, it becomes much less strong or severe.
• spin — to make (yarn) by drawing out, twisting, and winding fibers: Pioneer women spun yarn on spinning wheels.
• relapse — to fall or slip back into a former state, practice, etc.: to relapse into silence.
• lapse — an accidental or temporary decline or deviation from an expected or accepted condition or state; a temporary falling or slipping from a previous standard: a lapse of justice.
• flop — to fall or plump down suddenly, especially with noise; drop or turn with a sudden bump or thud (sometimes followed by down): The puppy flopped down on the couch.
• recede — to go or move away; retreat; go to or toward a more distant point; withdraw.
• flag — flagstone (def 1).
• cascade — If you refer to a cascade of something, you mean that there is a large amount of it.
• regress — to move backward; go back.
• unhorse — to cause to fall from a horse, as in battle; dislodge from the saddle: Sir Gawain unhorsed the strange knight.
• capsize — If you capsize a boat or if it capsizes, it turns upside down in the water.
• founder — a person who founds or casts metal, glass, etc.
• teeter — to move unsteadily.
• fall — to come or drop down suddenly to a lower position, especially to leave a standing or erect position suddenly, whether voluntarily or not: to fall on one's knees.
• lurch — Archaic. the act of lurking or state of watchfulness.
• stagger — to walk, move, or stand unsteadily.
• falter — to hesitate or waver in action, purpose, intent, etc.; give way: Her courage did not falter at the prospect of hardship.
• overbalance — to outweigh: The opportunity overbalances the disadvantages of leaving town.
• disturb — to interrupt the quiet, rest, peace, or order of; unsettle.
• unsettle — to alter from a settled state; cause to be no longer firmly fixed or established; render unstable; disturb: Violence unsettled the government.
• level — having no part higher than another; having a flat or even surface.
• toss — Terminal Oriented Social Science
• disarray — to put out of array or order; throw into disorder.
• down — from higher to lower; in descending direction or order; toward, into, or in a lower position: to come down the ladder.
• mess up — a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition: The room was in a mess.
• knock over — to strike a sounding blow with the fist, knuckles, or anything hard, especially on a door, window, or the like, as in seeking admittance, calling attention, or giving a signal: to knock on the door before entering.
• keel over — Nautical. a central fore-and-aft structural member in the bottom of a hull, extending from the stem to the sternpost and having the floors or frames attached to it, usually at right angles: sometimes projecting from the bottom of the hull to provide stability.
• break down — If a machine or a vehicle breaks down, it stops working.
• cave in — If something such as a roof or a ceiling caves in, it collapses inwards.
• fold up — a part that is folded; pleat; layer: folds of cloth.
• nose-dive — a plunge of an aircraft with the forward part pointing downward.
• tip over — to cause to assume a slanting or sloping position; incline; tilt.
• bring down — When people or events bring down a government or ruler, they cause the government or ruler to lose power.
• turn over — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
• go belly up — the front or under part of a vertebrate body from the breastbone to the pelvis, containing the abdominal viscera; the abdomen.
• knock down — to strike a sounding blow with the fist, knuckles, or anything hard, especially on a door, window, or the like, as in seeking admittance, calling attention, or giving a signal: to knock on the door before entering.
• lose it — to come to be without (something in one's possession or care), through accident, theft, etc., so that there is little or no prospect of recovery: I'm sure I've merely misplaced my hat, not lost it.