FREE-FALLS Synonyms: 33 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

plural of free-fall

as in slides

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free-falls

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verb

present tense third-person singular of free-fall

as in plunges

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Noun

Trim Your Presentation To Essentials Cut your slides in half, then cut them again.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Gradually, the notion of trading PowerPoint slides and Excel spreadsheets for something more elemental became intoxicating.

— Peter Hahn, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of slides

Verb

The film plunges James deep into the wilds with his retired military dog Odin after their small plan crash lands during a camping trip.

— Emily Zemler, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Sep. 2026
If that happens, an energy crisis that plunges the world into recession is not far off.

— RICHARD HAASS, Foreign Affairs, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of plunges

Noun

When the time expires, the wrestler with the most falls will be declared the winner.

— Ryan Gaydos OutKick, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2026
Despite its increasing normalcy, extreme heat can take hikers by surprise, leading to dehydration, heat stroke and exhaustion, which in turn can contribute to falls.

— Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of falls

Verb

With the married couple of Robert and Camille Sims careening off onto very different moral trajectories, Camille must confront troubling truths as her conscience plummets into the pits of Hades, while Robert is on a profound journey of salvation.

— Jeff Spry, Space.com, 28 Aug. 2026
While students using unrestricted AI show immediate performance improvement while using AI agents, their performance plummets once the tool is removed.

— Aaron Glantz, Christian Science Monitor, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of plummets

Verb

Within the cells, electricity plates out pure elemental metals and selectively precipitates battery compounds like lithium carbonate.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 2 Sep. 2026
Again, an ammonium fluoride solution is one of the starting materials; the silicon dioxide simply precipitates out of this solution.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 28 May 2026

Definition of precipitates

Verb

An intergalactic creature named Gordon Shumway from the planet of Melmac crashes his spaceship into a garage.

— Sergio Pereira, Space.com, 22 Sep. 2026
If Windows crashes or won't boot, those extras disappear, but JetKVM itself keeps working because it is still connected directly to the computer's screen, keyboard and mouse.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 18 Sep. 2026

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