Synonyms of falling away

falling away

verb

present participle of fall away

as in decreasing

to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually

as the years went by, the public's interest in the murder case fell away

Synonyms & Similar Words

• decreasing
• diminishing
• subsiding
• dropping (off)
• dying (away or down or out)
• draining (away)
• tapering off
• falling
• declining
• ratcheting (down)
• vanishing
• easing
• letting up
• shrinking
• racheting (down)
• phasing down
• tapering
• ebbing
• waning
• melting (away)
• moderating
• dwindling
• lowering
• receding
• fading (away)
• lessening
• weakening
• tailing (off)
• petering (out)
• relenting
• frittering (away)
• slowing (down)
• remitting
• giving out
• evaporating
• palling
• abating
• de-escalating
• compressing
• collapsing
• contracting
• condensing
• caving (in)
• alleviating
• constricting
• relaxing
• slackening
• flagging
• sinking
• deflating

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• increasing
• growing
• picking up
• rising
• building
• expanding
• swelling
• mounting
• soaring
• escalating
• intensifying
• accumulating
• enlarging
• burgeoning
• showing up
• mushrooming
• emerging
• waxing
• appearing
• snowballing
• blowing up
• ballooning
• bourgeoning
• lengthening
• elongating
• distending