Antonyms for fall away
Grammar : Verb |
Spell : fawl |
Phonetic Transcription : fɔl |
- accomplish
- accuse
- achieve
- add
- advance
- aggravate
- allow
- amplify
- approve
- ascend
- awake
- blame
- blow up
- break off
- build
- carry on
- censure
- charge
- condemn
- continue
- develop
- dilate
- disagree
- draw up
- encourage
- enlarge
- expand
- extend
- flourish
- flow
- forge
- forward
- free
- give
- go
- go up
- grow
- hold
- improve
- incite
- increase
- incriminate
- intensify
- irritate
- keep
- leave alone
- lengthen
- let go
- loose
- loosen
- magnify
- open
- permit
- progress
- prolong
- punish
- raise
- reach
- receive
- release
- rise
- save
- sentence
- spread
- straighten
- strengthen
- stretch
- succeed
- take away
- tighten
- wake
- win
- worry
Definition of fall away
Origin :- Old English feallan (class VII strong verb; past tense feoll, past participle feallen) "to fall; fail, decay, die," from Proto-Germanic *fallanan (cf. Old Frisian falla, Old Saxon fallan, Dutch vallen, Old Norse falla, Old High German fallan, German fallen), from PIE root *pol- "to fall" (cf. Armenian p'ul "downfall," Lithuanian puola "to fall," Old Prussian aupallai "finds," literally "falls upon").
- Most of the figurative senses had developed in Middle English. Meaning "to be reduced" (as temperature) is from 1650s. To fall in love is attested from 1520s; to fall asleep is late 14c. Fall through "come to naught" is from 1781. To fall for something is from 1903.
- As in regress : verb return to earlier way of doing things
- As in remit : verb stop, postpone
- As in sag : verb droop
- As in lose ground : verb suffer loss or disadvantage
- As in contract : verb condense
- As in drop off : verb decrease
- As in ebb : verb subside; decline
- All the agitation and turmoil of the last few months seemed to fall away from him.
- Extract from : « The Avenger » by E. Phillips Oppenheim
- But suddenly, at a point where it fringed a meadow, it seemed to fall away.
- Extract from : « Abbe Mouret's Transgression » by Emile Zola
- Perhaps she was so, and only the pains of death made her seem to fall away.
- Extract from : « The Eternal City » by Hall Caine
- His interest in her began to grow, his reserve to fall away.
- Extract from : « The Duke Of Chimney Butte » by G. W. Ogden
- They fitted him no longer; they began to fall away from him.
- Extract from : « The Market-Place » by Harold Frederic
- If you follow his advice the difficulties will fall away, because he wants the railway.
- Extract from : « Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard » by Joseph Conrad
- Condescend, noble Piso, to name me to her, and entreat her not to fall away from her Greek.
- Extract from : « Aurelian » by William Ware
- Mind that you do not fall away from the ball when the club is about to come into contact with it.
- Extract from : « The Complete Golfer [1905] » by Harry Vardon
- See them in their true light and their power will fall away from them.
- Extract from : « The Hidden Power » by Thomas Troward
- We speak as man to man, and I know you are not likely to fall away from me.
- Extract from : « Great Porter Square, v. 2 » by Benjamin Leopold Farjeon
Synonyms for fall away
- abate
- abbreviate
- abridge
- absolve
- alleviate
- amnesty
- backslide
- bag
- become smaller
- bend
- bow
- bulge
- cancel
- cave in
- clench
- compress
- condone
- confine
- constrict
- consume
- curtail
- curve
- dangle
- decay
- decline
- decrease
- defer
- deflate
- degenerate
- delay
- desist
- deteriorate
- die down
- die out
- diminish
- dip
- draw in
- drop
- drop off
- dwindle
- ease off
- ease up
- ebb
- edit
- epitomize
- evaporate
- excuse
- exonerate
- fade away
- fail
- fall
- fall away
- fall back
- fall farther behind
- fall off
- flag
- flap
- flop
- flow back
- forbear
- forgive
- give way
- go back
- go out
- grow less
- halt
- hang
- hang down
- hold off
- hold up
- intermit
- languish
- lapse
- lean
- lessen
- let up
- lose
- lose ground
- melt
- mitigate
- moderate
- modify
- modulate
- narrow
- omit
- pardon
- peter out
- prorogue
- purse
- put off
- recede
- reduce
- relapse
- relax
- release
- relent
- repeal
- reprieve
- rescind
- respite
- retire
- retreat
- retrocede
- retrogress
- revert
- roll back
- run out of gas
- sag
- settle
- shelve
- shrink
- shrivel
- sink
- slack
- slacken
- slide
- slip
- slump
- soften
- stay
- subside
- suspend
- swag
- syncopate
- take in
- throw back
- tighten
- turn back
- wane
- waste
- weaken
- wilt
- withdraw
- wither
- wrinkle
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