Antonyms for falling away
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : fawl |
| Phonetic Transcription : fɔl |
- accomplish
- accuse
- achieve
- add
- advance
- aggravate
- aid
- allow
- allowance
- amplify
- approval
- approve
- arrival
- ascend
- assistance
- awake
- blame
- blow up
- break off
- build
- carry on
- censure
- charge
- coming
- condemn
- continue
- develop
- dilate
- disagree
- draw up
- encourage
- enlarge
- expand
- extend
- flourish
- flow
- forge
- forward
- free
- give
- go
- go up
- grow
- help
- hold
- improve
- incite
- increase
- incriminate
- intensify
- irritate
- keep
- leave alone
- lengthen
- let go
- loose
- loosen
- magnify
- meeting
- open
- permit
- progress
- prolong
- punish
- raise
- ratification
- reach
- receive
- release
- rise
- save
- sentence
- spread
- stay
- staying
- straighten
- strengthen
- stretch
- succeed
- take away
- tighten
- wake
- win
- worry
Definition of falling away
Origin :- present participle adjective from fall (v.). Falling star is from 1560s; falling out "disagreement" is from 1560s. Falling evil "epilepsy" is from early 13c.
- As in desertion : noun abandonment
- 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
- He is limited by the absurd and that means He is unlimited; for the absurd is a falling away.
- Extract from : « Initiation into Philosophy » by Emile Faguet
- The spores are elliptical, 126., and black, falling away in drops.
- Extract from : « The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise » by M. E. Hard
- It is suggested that we are falling away from God because of some lack in the Church.
- Extract from : « The Romance of the Soul » by Lilian Staveley
- They gave the effect of falling away from some evil contagion.
- Extract from : « The Winning Clue » by James Hay, Jr.
- Yet during all these years, the illusions were falling away.
- Extract from : « Child and Country » by Will Levington Comfort
- She noticed this, and felt, somehow, that her people were falling away from her.
- Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 » by Various
- There shall not be, as in the first creation, any falling away.
- Extract from : « The Expositor's Bible: The Epistles of St. Peter » by J. Rawson Lumby
- The Authorised Version says "a" falling away, but that is wrong.
- Extract from : « The Expositor's Bible: The Epistles to the Thessalonians » by James Denney
- His lowliness was falling away, his sense of his own importance was coming back to him.
- Extract from : « Back Home » by Irvin S. Cobb
- Not persistent; falling away, as the leaves of a tree in autumn.
- Extract from : « Michigan Trees » by Charles Herbert Otis
Synonyms for falling away
- abate
- abbreviate
- abridge
- abrogation
- absconding
- absolve
- alleviate
- amnesty
- apostasy
- avoidance
- backslide
- backsliding
- bag
- become smaller
- bend
- betrayal
- bow
- bulge
- cancel
- castoff
- cave in
- clench
- compress
- condone
- confine
- constrict
- consume
- curtail
- curve
- dangle
- decay
- decline
- decrease
- defecting
- defer
- deflate
- degenerate
- delay
- departing
- departure
- derelict
- dereliction
- desist
- deteriorate
- die down
- die out
- diminish
- dip
- disaffection
- disavowal
- disavowing
- divorce
- draw in
- drop
- drop off
- dwindle
- ease off
- ease up
- ebb
- edit
- elusion
- epitomize
- escape
- evaporate
- evasion
- excuse
- exonerate
- fade away
- fail
- fall
- fall away
- fall back
- fall farther behind
- fall off
- falling away
- falseness
- flag
- flap
- flight
- flop
- flow back
- forbear
- forgive
- forsaking
- give way
- go back
- go out
- going back on
- grow less
- halt
- hang
- hang down
- hold off
- hold up
- intermit
- languish
- lapse
- lean
- leaving
- lessen
- let up
- lose
- lose ground
- marooning
- melt
- mitigate
- moderate
- modify
- modulate
- narrow
- omit
- pardon
- perfidy
- peter out
- prorogue
- purse
- put off
- recede
- recreancy
- reduce
- rejection
- relapse
- relax
- release
- relent
- relinquishment
- renunciation
- repeal
- reprieve
- repudiation
- rescind
- resignation
- respite
- retire
- retirement
- retreat
- retrocede
- retrogress
- revert
- roll back
- run out of gas
- running out on
- sag
- secession
- settle
- shelve
- shrink
- shrivel
- sink
- slack
- slacken
- slide
- slip
- slump
- soften
- stay
- subside
- suspend
- swag
- syncopate
- take in
- tergiversation
- throw back
- tighten
- treachery
- truancy
- turn back
- wane
- waste
- weaken
- wilt
- withdraw
- withdrawal
- wither
- wrinkle
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