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fall away

fall away verb: to cease to support a person or cause.

Verb

fall away (third-person singular simple present falls away, present participle falling away, simple past fell away, past participle fallen away)

  1. (intransitive) To cease to support a person or cause.
    • After the divorce, all his friends fell away one by one.
    • These […] for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 8:13
  2. (intransitive) To diminish in size, weight, or intensity.
    • One colour falls away by just degrees, and another rises insensibly.1697, Joseph Addison, Essay on Virgil's Georgics
    • While long-distance and commuter rail travel still fared well, train travel to seaside resorts was perhaps inevitably falling away.2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 51
  3. (intransitive) To perish; to vanish; to be lost.
    • How […] can the soul […] fall away into nothing?1711 July 17 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “FRIDAY, July 7, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 111; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New...
  4. (intransitive) To slope downward.

fall away meaning in Malayalam and Sanskrit

fall away in Malayalam

slope (down), slant down, go down
താഴേക്കിറങ്ങുക, അടിയിലേക്കു പോകുക, ചരിവായിറങ്ങുക, ചരിഞ്ഞിറങ്ങുക, താഴോട്ടുപോകുക, കീഴോട്ടിറങ്ങുക

fall away in Sanskrit

to fall away, fade, vanish
च्यु cyu

Forms of fall away

third-person singular presentfalls away
present participlefalling away
pastfell away
past participlefallen away

Words formed from fall away

Questions about fall away

What does fall away mean?
Fall away means to cease to support a person or cause.
What is fall away in Malayalam?
Fall away in Malayalam is താഴേക്കിറങ്ങുക, അടിയിലേക്കു പോകുക, ചരിവായിറങ്ങുക. See Fall away meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is fall away?
Fall away is a verb.
What is the past tense of fall away?
The past tense of fall away is fell away.

Words near fall away in the dictionary

  1. fall asleep in the Lord
  2. Fall aster
  3. Fall asters
  4. fall at the final hurdle
  5. fall at the last hurdle
  6. fall away
  7. fall back
  8. fall back into
  9. fall back on
  10. fall back upon
  11. fall behind

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fall away (page history and authors); fall away (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); च्यु (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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