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fallen away

fallen away is the past participle of fall away.

Meaning of fall away

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.
  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
  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.

Questions about fallen away

What is fallen away the past participle of?
Fallen away is the past participle of fall away.

Words near fallen away in the dictionary

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

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