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TO FALL AWAY

Definition: TO FALL AWAY

TO FALL AWAY

1. (a) To lose flesh; to become lean or emaciated; to pine. (b) To renounce or desert allegiance; to revolt or rebel. (c) To renounce or desert the faith; to apostatize. ``These . . . for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.'' --Luke viii. 13. (d) To perish; to vanish; to be lost. ``How . . . can the soul . . . fall away into nothing?'' --Addison. (e) To decline gradually; to fade; to languish, or become faint. ``One color falls away by just degrees, and another rises insensibly.'' --Addison.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Modern Translation: TO FALL AWAY

Language Translations for "TO FALL AWAY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

elpártol (draw back, to bolt, to draw back, to rat, to scuttle), elmarad (fail, to be cancelled, to fail, to fall off, to hold off, to lag behind, to make default). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otay allfay awayay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TO FALL AWAY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-f-l-l-o-t-w-y"

-2 letters: fallaway.

-3 letters: fatally, tallowy, tollway.

-4 letters: afloat, fallow, flatly, floaty, tallow.

-5 letters: allay, allot, allow, alloy, aloft, alway, atoll, fatal, fatly, fatwa, flawy, float, flota, folly, lofty, lowly, loyal, tally, tolyl, walla, wally.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: TO FALL AWAY


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F      46 41 4C 4C      41 57 41 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 00100000 01000110 01000001 01001100 01001100 00100000 01000001 01010111 01000001 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#70 &#65 &#76 &#76 &#32 &#65 &#87 &#65 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F      0046 0041 004C 004C      0041 0057 0041 0059

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5449240354646235573559

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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