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falls away

falls away is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 falls away

What is falls away the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Falls away is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fall away.

Words near falls away in the dictionary

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

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