FELL OFF Synonyms: 26 Similar and Opposite Words

fell off

verb

past tense of fall off

as in curved

to turn away from a straight line or course the coastline falls off toward the north after you round the bay

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straightened

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Recent Examples of fell off Toy Story 5, the previous week’s overall top title, fell off by about 55 percent but still led the movie chart with 687 million minutes of viewing. — Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2026 Orlando Arcia was an All-Star there in 2023, but his offensive production fell off dramatically in 2024 and he was released in 2025. — Chad Bishop, AJC.com, 15 Oct. 2026 The staff at Children's Hospital LA said the couple's story that the child fell off a bed did not match the injuries. — Austin Turner, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026 Schumacher and his next Ferrari teammate, Rubens Barrichello, fell off the road in all-red unison during a shower in the 2001 race. — Alex Kalinauckas, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2026 The posts appear every 20 minutes, no author shows up twice, yesterday's topics include pet insurance and industrial valves and the search traffic fell off a cliff a year ago. — Boris Dzhingarov, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026 Official production fell off to almost nothing after the war, which isn't surprising, since there might have been as many as a million floating about with many never issued. — David Szondy august 30, New Atlas, 30 Aug. 2026 Officials told Indian media outlets that whatever fell off the glacier may have dropped into a glacial lake and blocked a river, resulting in the massive wave of ice, water and debris that plowed through settlements nearby. — Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 27 Aug. 2026 Law enforcement traced him via a license plate that fell off of his vehicle at the scene, then using cell phone tracking and license plate reader cameras. — Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 27 Aug. 2026

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The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art’s central plaza, which spreads out beneath the building’s curved, hovering form, was always meant to be a generous civic space.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
The signature curved heel from the designer’s Larroudé past collections returns, but this time also in a kitten heel iteration.

— Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 30 Sep. 2026