FELL AWAY Synonyms: 78 Similar and Opposite Words

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

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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

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Now the prevalence of malaria is around 7%, and deaths of children under five decreased by 78%.

— ABC News, ABC News, 18 Oct. 2026
The definitive study of feedback, Avraham Kluger and Angelo DeNisi’s meta-analysis of 23,663 observations, found that over a third of feedback interventions decreased performance.

— Zaharia-Gabriel Sidere, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of decreased

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Griess, the superintendent of the National Mall and Memorial Parks, said the 430 trees that were felled were not identified as hazardous or raising safety concerns.

— Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 12 Oct. 2026
Yet trees that took a millennium to grow can be felled in under an hour.

— Annika Hammerschlag, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026

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The weather service canceled the flood watch for nearly all the Kansas City forecast area because the threat of additional heavy rain had diminished.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 14 Oct. 2026
One can see this when a paint’s color appears diminished and faded.

— Wendy S. Walters, Architectural Digest, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of diminished

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But within a couple years, as the pandemic eased and community-police tension subsided, Bolingbrook Police Chief Mike Rompa started using his village purchasing card – known as a p-card – in a different way than others with the same cards.

— Irika Sargent, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
Meanwhile, conditions were improving in the tourist destination of Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, where residents began resuming normal activities as the rain subsided.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 Oct. 2026

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