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 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

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This means any slowdown in the labor market could create a more serious consumption problem, with the same households facing slower income growth and decreased access to credit.

— Harvey Stober, CNBC, 4 Oct. 2026
And the number of young people who stayed on medication for six months — already quite low — may have actually decreased.

— Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of decreased

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That is quite far apart from the commercial industry, which actually stands to be diminished by these policy reforms.

— Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 7 Oct. 2026
By raw numbers, net domestic out-migration of Californians to other states continues even as the California exodus overall has diminished in strength.

— Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of diminished

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But as the initial euphoria of the rescue has subsided, officials have begun to raise difficult questions and trade accusations about the security blunders that could have led to a major disaster.

— ABC News, ABC News, 4 Oct. 2026
Questions about security failures But as the initial euphoria of the rescue has subsided, officials have begun to raise difficult questions and trade accusations about the security blunders that could have led to a major disaster.

— Melanie Lidman, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2026

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