falling

Plural: fallings

Verb

• descend in free fall under the influence of gravity
• move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
  • "The barometer is falling"
• pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind
• come under, be classified or included
• fall from clouds
  • "rain, snow and sleet were falling"
• suffer defeat, failure, or ruin
• die, as in battle or in a hunt
• touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly
• be captured
• occur at a specified time or place
• decrease in size, extent, or range
• yield to temptation or sin
• lose office or power
• to be given by assignment or distribution
• move in a specified direction
• be due
• lose one's chastity
• to be given by right or inheritance
• come into the possession of
• fall to somebody by assignment or lot
• be inherited by
• slope downward
• lose an upright position suddenly
• drop oneself to a lower or less erect position
• fall or flow in a certain way
• assume a disappointed or sad expression
• be cast down
• come out; issue
• be born, used chiefly of lambs
• begin vigorously
• go as if by falling
• come as if by falling
• present participle and gerund of fall

Adjective Satellite

• decreasing in amount or degree
  • "falling temperature"
• coming down freely under the influence of gravity
  • "falling rain"

Adjective

• becoming lower or less in degree or value
  • "a falling market"
  • "falling incomes"

Noun

• verbal noun of fall

Examples

• a falling leaf
• the falling prices of luxury goods

Synonyms

accrue, come, come down, decrease, descend, devolve, diminish, dropping, fall, fall down, flow, go down, hang, lessen, light, pass, precipitate, return, settle, shine, strike

Antonyms

ascend, increase, rise, rising

Anagrams of falling