| Pronunciation: | | f'âling
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| Matching Terms: | | falling off, falling out
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- [adj] coming down freely under the influence of gravity; "the eerie whistle of dropping bombs"; "falling rain"
- [adj] suddenly losing an upright position; "they ran from the falling tree"; "a falling wall crushed the car"
- [adj] becoming lower or less in degree or value; "a falling market"; "falling incomes"
- [adj] coming after the climax especially of a dramatic or narrative plot; "the falling action"
- [adj] decreasing in amount or degree; "falling temperature"
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| | Synonyms: | | anticlimactic, declining, decreasing, descending(a), down(a), dropping, toppling, tumbling |
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| | Antonyms: | | rising, standing, upright |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Fall"ing\, a. & n.
from {Fall}, v. i.
{Falling away}, {Falling off}, etc. See {To fall away}, {To
fall off}, etc., under {Fall}, v. i.
{Falling band}, the plain, broad, linen collar turning down
over the doublet, worn in the early part of the 17th
century.
{Falling sickness} (Med.), epilepsy. --Shak.
{Falling star}. (Astron.) See {Shooting star}.
{Falling stone}, a stone falling through the atmosphere; a
meteorite; an a["e]rolite.
{Falling tide}, the ebb tide.
{Falling weather}, a rainy season. [Colloq.] --Bartlett.
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| | Related Terms: | | cascading, collapsing, coming apart, cracking, crumbling, dangling, decadent, deciduous, declined, declining, declivate, declivitous, declivous, decurrent, degenerate, dependent, depending, descendant, descending, deteriorating, dipping, disintegrating, down, downcoming, downfalling, downgoing, downgrade, downhill, down-reaching, downsinking, downward, draining, drooping, dropping, dwindling, ebbing, effete, fading, failing, falling loosely, flagging, flowing, fragmenting, going to pieces, hanging, hung, languishing, marcescent, on the descendant, on the downgrade, pendent, pending, pendulant, pendular, penduline, pendulous, pensile, pining, plummeting, plunging, regressive, retrograde, retrogressive, sagging, setting, shriveling, sinking, sliding, slipping, slumping, submerging, subsiding, suspended, swinging, tabetic, tottering, tumbledown, waning, wasting, weeping, wilting, withering, worsening |
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