Synonyms of fell away

fell away

verb

past tense of fall away

as in decreased

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

• decreased
• fell
• diminished
• subsided
• dropped (off)
• died (away or down or out)
• drained (away)
• tapered off
• vanished
• eased
• declined
• shrank
• tapered
• phased down
• ebbed
• dwindled
• racheted (down)
• waned
• lowered
• moderated
• ratcheted (down)
• lessened
• let up
• receded
• weakened
• relented
• faded (away)
• palled
• melted (away)
• remitted
• evaporated
• petered (out)
• abated
• frittered (away)
• slowed (down)
• de-escalated
• compressed
• gave out
• tailed (off)
• contracted
• condensed
• constricted
• relaxed
• alleviated
• collapsed
• slackened
• flagged
• caved (in)
• sank
• deflated

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• increased
• built
• picked up
• grew
• expanded
• rose
• mounted
• accumulated
• intensified
• enlarged
• soared
• escalated
• appeared
• swelled
• waxed
• emerged
• showed up
• mushroomed
• burgeoned
• ballooned
• snowballed
• blew up
• lengthened
• elongated
• distended

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of fell away

Just beyond the marks, the abyss fell away for hundreds of feet. — Peter Hessler, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026

Crags barely visible from the ground reared up above us, and deep crevasses fell away below. — Holden Frith, TheWeek, 4 Sep. 2026

Simon says some friendships fell away, while the people who simply stayed close became impossible to forget. — Emily Cegielski, Flow Space, 17 Aug. 2026

The political sparring fell away in this moment, and the conversation turned personal, with Biden testing whether Fuentes could be confronted directly rather than through his media proxies. — Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 27 July 2026

This was decided by the storage capacity of early records and commercially reified for decades after the practical limitations fell away. — Brian Howe, Pitchfork, 21 July 2026

Critics of the network business say the successful production and distribution arm has kept ITV’s share price from tanking over recent years as the TV ad market fell away, though that is just one read of the situation. — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 5 July 2026

But over the 99 minutes of gameplay, some of those similarities fell away. — Ben Church, CNN Money, 23 June 2026

In response to the crisis, health policy and regulatory barriers that had long limited telemedicine fell away almost overnight. — Iyesatta Massaquoi Emeli, STAT, 2 June 2026