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Falling Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Falling? [adj] coming down freely under the influence of gravity; "the eerie whistle of dropping bombs"; "falling rain" [adj] suddenly losing an upright position; "they ran from the falling tree"; "a falling wall crushed the car" [adj] becoming lower or less in degree or value; "a falling market"; "falling incomes" [adj] coming after the climax especially of a dramatic or narrative plot; "the falling action" [adj] decreasing in amount or degree; "falling temperature" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Falling: anticlimactic \| declining \| decreasing \| descending(a) \| down(a) \| dropping \| toppling \| tumbling Related Terms \| Find terms related to Falling: cascading \| collapsing \| coming apart \| cracking \| crumbling \| dangling \| decadent \| deciduous \| declined \| declining \| declivate \| declivitous \| declivous \| decurrent \| degenerate \| dependent \| depending \| descendant \| descending \| deteriorating \| dipping \| disintegrating \| down \| downcoming \| downfalling \| downgoing \| downgrade \| downhill \| down-reaching \| downsinking \| downward \| draining \| drooping \| dropping \| dwindling \| ebbing \| effete \| fading \| failing \| falling loosely \| flagging \| flowing \| fragmenting \| going to pieces \| hanging \| hung \| languishing \| marcescent \| on the descendant \| on the downgrade \| pendent \| pending \| pendulant \| pendular \| penduline \| pendulous \| pensile \| pining \| plummeting \| plunging \| regressive \| retrograde \| retrogressive \| sagging \| setting \| shriveling \| sinking \| sliding \| slipping \| slumping \| submerging \| subsiding \| suspended \| swinging \| tabetic \| tottering \| tumbledown \| waning \| wasting \| weeping \| wilting \| withering \| worsening See Also \| Falling In Webster's Dictionary \Fall"ing\, a. & n. from {Fall}, v. i. {Falling away}, {Falling off}, etc. See {To fall away}, {To fall off}, etc., under {Fall}, v. i. {Falling band}, the plain, broad, linen collar turning down over the doublet, worn in the early part of the 17th century. {Falling sickness} (Med.), epilepsy. --Shak. {Falling star}. (Astron.) See {Shooting star}. {Falling stone}, a stone falling through the atmosphere; a meteorite; an a["e]rolite. {Falling tide}, the ebb tide. {Falling weather}, a rainy season. [Colloq.] --Bartlett.

Falling Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Falling?

[adj] coming down freely under the influence of gravity; "the eerie whistle of dropping bombs"; "falling rain"
[adj] suddenly losing an upright position; "they ran from the falling tree"; "a falling wall crushed the car"
[adj] becoming lower or less in degree or value; "a falling market"; "falling incomes"
[adj] coming after the climax especially of a dramatic or narrative plot; "the falling action"
[adj] decreasing in amount or degree; "falling temperature"

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Falling In Webster's Dictionary

\Fall"ing\, a. & n.
from {Fall}, v. i.

{Falling away}, {Falling off}, etc. See {To fall away}, {To
   fall off}, etc., under {Fall}, v. i.

{Falling band}, the plain, broad, linen collar turning down
   over the doublet, worn in the early part of the 17th
   century.

{Falling sickness} (Med.), epilepsy. --Shak.

{Falling star}. (Astron.) See {Shooting star}.

{Falling stone}, a stone falling through the atmosphere; a
   meteorite; an a["e]rolite.

{Falling tide}, the ebb tide.

{Falling weather}, a rainy season. [Colloq.] --Bartlett.

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