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

Two-and-a-half minutes later, now out of the dense lower atmosphere, the first stage fell away and headed back toward Cape Canaveral for a return-to-launch-site landing while the second stage continued the climb to orbit. — William Harwood, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026

Their floodlights were opened with a visit by a Manchester United XI in 1989 and a substantial clubhouse was opened by Sir Alex Ferguson in 1995, but attendances fell away and the ground had no host club. — Andy Mitten, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2026

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