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falling-out

falling-out is the alternative form of falling out.

Meaning of falling out

Noun

falling out (countable and uncountable, plural fallings out or falling outs)

  1. (idiomatic) A rift between people or groups, often following a disagreement or quarrel
    • Since the falling out with his neighbor, they have kept their distance.
  2. (uncountable) A culture-bound syndrome primarily reported in the southern United States and the Caribbean, described as a constricted consciousness as a psychological response to anxiety and stress.

Forms of falling-out

pluralfallings-out

Questions about falling-out

What is falling-out the alternative form of?
Falling-out is the alternative form of falling out.

Words near falling-out in the dictionary

  1. falling upon
  2. falling victim
  3. Falling Waters
  4. falling weather
  5. falling-off
  6. falling-out
  7. falling-sickness
  8. fallingly
  9. fallings
  10. fallings out
  11. fallings-out

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Adapted from Wiktionary: falling-out (page history and authors); falling out (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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