falls away

verb

present tense third-person singular of fall away
as in decreases
to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually as the years went by, the public's interest in the murder case fell away

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Recent Examples of falls away For one night, all of the stratification of the music world falls away. — ABC News, 3 June 2026 As the song churns on, the focus narrows in on West until everything else falls away. — Jayson Greene, Pitchfork, 3 Mar. 2026 For Bebe Rexha, her new album Dirty Blonde is built in that shift—where structure falls away and instinct takes over. — Desjah Altvater, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026 Beyond them, the concrete of the 21st century falls away, replaced by creamy pillars and marble paving stretching into the distance, with green hills beyond. — Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 9 Feb. 2026 Perusing the peanut butter and chocolate chip cookie recipe that Khoury has given Vogue from his book (yes, the one Nigella Lawson loves), any cynicism falls away. — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 4 Dec. 2025 The doc conceit falls away, replaced by a shallow attempt at the eerily elegant, off-kilter horror style codified by 2018’s Hereditary. — Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 21 Oct. 2025 The public is getting its first look as the scaffolding falls away, revealing a hub for art, science, health and entertainment, including concerts and sporting events that will be broadcast in a large format on the exterior of the alumni center. — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2026 While the service module falls away to burn up on re-entry over the Pacific, Orion’s crew module will begin its direct path at 400,000 feet altitude, about 1,900 miles shy of its splashdown site . — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 9 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for falls away
  1. decreases
  2. diminishes
  3. subsides
  4. falls
  5. tapers off
  6. declines
Verb
  • Eat plenty of fiber, which aids digestion and decreases your risk.
    — Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 7 July 2026
  • As greenhouse gases cool and shrink this upper atmospheric region, atmospheric drag decreases.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 6 July 2026
Definition of decreases
Verb
  • In most lakes oxygen content diminishes rapidly at depths below 35 feet.
    — Jack G. Mell, Outdoor Life, 2 July 2026
  • None of this diminishes the responsibility of wealthy countries.
    — W. Gyude Moore, semafor.com, 2 July 2026
Definition of diminishes
Verb
  • After the laughter ringing through the room subsides, though, Abela does allow for a moment of reverence — for the HBO drama if not for the disreputable people who populate it.
    — Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2026
  • Then the climax subsides for a lovely coda of strings, accompanied by a denouement in which the now casually clad, contemporary-looking singer smashes up her play set in the apartment where she’s presumably been brooding over all this stuff.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 22 May 2026
Definition of subsides
Verb
  • The investigators ask whether this discovery falls within the scope of her project.
    — Rhoda Feng, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2026
  • Your body temperature typically rises throughout the morning and afternoon, peaks in the evening, and then falls late at night.
    — The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 July 2026
Definition of falls
Verb
  • Acuna’s show business resume tapers off in the mid-2010’s, according to IMDB.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 26 Mar. 2026
  • After the strongest storms move out, colder air will settle in with the possibility of a few wet snowflakes before the precipitation tapers off.
    — Gregory Padgett, CBS News, 14 Mar. 2026
Definition of tapers off
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  • Many international students pay full tuition, turning them an increasingly important source of revenue as domestic enrollment declines.
    — Scott White, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026
  • Alan Jackson declines comment With that, the judge left the bench, taking no comment or questions from the lawyers present.
    — Kristina Rex, CBS News, 1 July 2026
Definition of declines

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