falling
adjective
[ ˈfɔːlɪŋ ]
• moving from a higher to a lower level, typically rapidly and without control.
• "she was injured by a falling tree"
• decreasing in number, amount, intensity, or quality.
• "falling attendance figures"
fall
verb
• move from a higher to a lower level, typically rapidly and without control.
• "five inches of snow fell through the night"
Similar:
drop,
drop down,
plummet,
descend,
come down,
go down,
plunge,
sink,
dive,
nosedive,
tumble,
pitch,
cascade,
gravitate,
• (of a person) lose one's balance and collapse.
• "he stumbled, tripped, and fell"
Similar:
topple over,
tumble over,
keel over,
fall down,
fall over,
go head over heels,
go end over end,
fall headlong,
go headlong,
collapse,
fall in a heap,
take a spill,
pitch forward,
trip,
trip over,
stumble,
stagger,
slip,
slide,
cowp,
come a cropper,
go for six,
measure one's length,
Opposite:
get up,
• decrease in number, amount, intensity, or quality.
• "imports fell by 12 per cent"
Similar:
decrease,
decline,
diminish,
fall off,
drop off,
go down,
grow less,
lessen,
dwindle,
plummet,
plunge,
slump,
sink,
depreciate,
decrease in value,
lose value,
decline in price,
cheapen,
devalue,
hit the floor,
go through the floor,
nosedive,
take a nosedive,
take a header,
go into a tailspin,
crash,
go downhill,
• be captured or defeated.
• "the besieged city fell after three months"
Similar:
surrender,
yield,
submit,
give in,
give up,
give way,
capitulate,
succumb,
be overthrown by,
be taken by,
be defeated by,
be conquered by,
be overcome by,
be overwhelmed by,
lose one's position to,
pass into the hands of,
fall victim to,
• pass into a specified state, situation, or position.
• "she fell pregnant"
Similar:
become,
come/get to be,
grow,
get,
turn,
doze off,
drop off,
go to sleep,
nod off,
go off,
drift off,
crash,
crash out,
flake out,
conk out,
go out like a light,
sack out,
zone out,
Opposite:
stay awake,
wake up,
Origin:
Old English fallan, feallan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vallen and German fallen ; the noun is partly from the verb, partly from Old Norse fall ‘downfall, sin’.
