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Definition: TO FALL AWAY |
TO FALL AWAY1. (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. |
| 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 | ||||
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 4F      46 41 4C 4C      41 57 41 59 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01001111 00100000 01000110 01000001 01001100 01001100 00100000 01000001 01010111 01000001 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T O   F A L L   A W A Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 004F      0046 0041 004C 004C      0041 0057 0041 0059 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5449240354646235573559 |
| 1. Definition 2. Translations: Modern 3. Anagrams 4. Orthography | 5. Bibliography |
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