Synonyms for falling
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : fawl |
| Phonetic Transcription : fɔl |
Top 10 synonyms for falling Other synonyms for the word falling
Définition of falling
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.
- adj dropping
- Or he will be killed by falling stones or a treacherous blizzard.
- Extract from : « Ancient Man » by Hendrik Willem van Loon
- Falling from the lips of others, they dropped with conviction into my own soul.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
- It was a very old man who held, or tried to hold, Andrew from falling to the floor.
- Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
- She was like the falling of this starlight, pure, aloof, and strange and gentle.
- Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
- I knew you would be falling in love sooner or later--only I hoped it would be later.
- Extract from : « Viviette » by William J. Locke
- He's gone now, and when the black night is falling I'll have no son left me in the world.
- Extract from : « Riders to the Sea » by J. M. Synge
- The mercury in the barometer was falling, and so was the rain.
- Extract from : « Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia » by Thomas Mitchell
- The rain, as if falling through a sieve, immediately disappears.
- Extract from : « The Roof of France » by Matilda Betham-Edwards
- The snow was falling quietly and steadily, as it had fallen all day.
- Extract from : « A Woman Tenderfoot » by Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson
- The mizzen-staysail was now set to keep her from falling off into the troughs of the sea.
- Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
Antonyms for falling
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