to fall from the sky, to precipitate / (passive) to be hit by or caught in something falling head on.

to descend / to fall / to precipitate / to surrender

to entreat the enemy to surrender

entreating the enemy to surrender

calling the spirits of the dead / spiritualism

to call, contact, or communicate with the spirits of the dead, to act as a medium

Alternative spelling of 天下り: descent to earth from heaven; an avatar; in Japan's postwar period, the practice of awarding a high-level bureaucrat with a high-paying job after retirement (also spelled 天下り): a kind of revolving door syndrome

it’s raining

demotion

to demote