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falling
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falling
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- better sand that walkway before somebody falls on the ice
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- the city fell after weeks of merciless bombardment
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- word soon got out that the movie was no good, and box-office receipts fell like a rock
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- manufacturing in the area is falling, and closing signs are going up all over
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- abating,
- declining,
- decreasing,
- de-escalating,
- diminishing,
- draining (away),
- dropping (off),
- dwindling,
- dying (away or down or out),
- easing,
- ebbing,
- falling away,
- lessening,
- letting up,
- lowering,
- moderating,
- palling,
- phasing down,
- ratcheting (down)
- also racheting (down),
- receding,
- relenting,
- remitting,
- shrinking,
- subsiding,
- tapering,
- tapering off,
- waning
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- the lake bottom falls sharply just a few feet from the shoreline, so be careful
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- evening,
- flattening,
- leveling
- (or levelling),
- planing,
- smoothing,
- straightening
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- not surprisingly, the novice player fell to a much stronger opponent
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- even saints can fall
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- if their brave leader falls, the men will lose their courage
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- checking out,
- conking (out),
- croaking
- [slang],
- deceasing,
- demising,
- departing,
- dropping,
- dying,
- ending,
- exiting,
- expiring,
- flatlining,
- going,
- kicking in
- [slang],
- kicking off
- [slang],
- parting,
- passing away,
- passing (on),
- pegging out
- [chiefly British],
- perishing,
- popping off,
- stepping out,
- succumbing
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- biting the dust,
- buying it
- (or buying the farm),
- giving up the ghost,
- kicking the bucket,
- snuffing it
- [British]
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“Falling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/falling. Accessed 26 Jan. 2022.
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