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fallingverbpresent participle of fall to go down from an upright position suddenly and involuntarilybetter sand that walkway before somebody falls on the ice slipping, stumbling, toppling, tripping, tumbling collapsing, crumpling, dropping, flumping, keeling, plopping, plunking(or plonking), slumping (over)crashing, free-falling, nose-diving, plummeting, plunging, precipitating, wiping outskidding, sliding getting up, rising, standing (up), uprising to yield to the control or power of enemy forcesthe city fell after weeks of merciless bombardment capitulating, giving up, knuckling under, submitting, succumbing, surrendering bowing, buckling, caving (in), collapsing, giving (in)handing over, relinquishinglosingconceding, failing, folding enduring, standing bucking, defying, fighting, opposing, repelling, resisting, withstandingbeating, overcoming, winningconquering, prevailing, triumphing to go to a lower level especially abruptlyword soon got out that the movie was no good, and box-office receipts fell like a rock crashing, cratering, declining, descending, dipping, diving, dropping, lowering, nose-diving, plummeting, plunging, sinking, skidding, tumbling abating, decreasing, de-escalating, diminishing, drooping, dwindling, dying (down), ebbing, lessening, letting up, moderating, subsiding, tapering off, waningreceding, retreating arising, ascending, lifting, mounting, rising, soaring, spiking, upping accumulating, ballooning, building, burgeoning(also bourgeoning), enlarging, escalating, expanding, growing, increasing, intensifying, mushrooming, picking up, snowballing, swelling, waxing to grow less in scope or intensity especially graduallymanufacturing in the area is falling, and closing signs are going up all over abating, declining, decreasing, de-escalating, diminishing, draining (away), dropping (off), dwindling, dying (away or down or out), easing, ebbing, falling away, lessening, letting up, lowering, moderating, palling, phasing down, ratcheting (down)also racheting (down), receding, relenting, remitting, shrinking, subsiding, tapering, tapering off, waning compressing, condensing, constricting, contractingevaporating, fading (away), frittering (away), giving out, melting (away), petering (out), tailing (off), vanishingslackening, slowing (down)alleviating, relaxingflagging, sinking, weakeningcaving (in), collapsing, deflating accumulating, ballooning, building, burgeoning(also bourgeoning), enlarging, escalating, expanding, growing, increasing, intensifying, mounting, mushrooming, picking up, rising, snowballing, soaring, swelling, waxing appearing, emerging, showing upblowing up, distending, elongating, lengthening to lead or extend downwardthe lake bottom falls sharply just a few feet from the shoreline, so be careful declining, descending, dipping, dropping, plunging, sinking angling, canting, cocking, heeling, inclining, leaning, listing, reclining, slanting, sloping, tilting, tipping arising, ascending, climbing, mounting, rising, uprising, upsweeping, upturning evening, flattening, leveling(or levelling), planing, smoothing, straightening to undergo defeatnot surprisingly, the novice player fell to a much stronger opponent bowing out, losing falteringtanking, throwingforfeitingbombing, collapsing, cracking (up), failing, flopping, flunking, folding, foundering, missing, striking out, washing out taking the count conquering, prevailing, triumphing, winning flourishing, prospering, succeeding, thriving to commit an offenseeven saints can fall erring, offending, sinning, straying, transgressing, trespassing, wandering breaching, breaking, infringing, violatingbacksliding, lapsingmessing up breaking the law, falling from grace forgiving, justifying, pardoningregretting, repenting, ruing to stop livingif their brave leader falls, the men will lose their courage checking out, conking (out), croaking(slang), deceasing, demising, departing, dropping, dying, ending, exiting, expiring, flatlining, going, kicking in(slang), kicking off(slang), parting, passing away, passing (on), pegging out(chiefly British), perishing, popping off, stepping out, succumbing predeceasingconsuming, disappearing, drying up, fading, failing biting the dust, buying it(or buying the farm), giving up the ghost, kicking the bucket, snuffing it(British) breathing, living coming to, revivinglingeringbeing, existing, subsistingflourishing, prospering, thriving |