Fall Off

Definition: Fall Off

Fall Off

Verb

1. Come off; "This button had fallen off".

2. Fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly; "The real estate market fell off".

3. Diminish in size or intensity.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Food & Agriculture

Literature

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Synonyms: Fall Off

Deterioration

Verb: be worse, be deteriorated, become worse, become deteriorated; Adjective:; have seen better days, deteriorate, degenerate, fall off; wane; (decrease); ebb; retrograde; - decline, droop; go down; (sink); go downhill, go from bad to worse, go farther and fare worse; jump out of the frying pan into the fire.

Disjunction

Verb: be disjoined; come off, fall off, come to pieces, fall to pieces; peel off; get loose.

Nonincrease, Decrease

Verb: decrease, diminish, lessen; abridge; (shorten); shrink; (contract); drop off, fall off, tail off; fall away, waste, wear; wane, ebb, decline; descend; subside; melt away, die away; retire into the shade, hide its diminished head, fall to a low ebb, run low, languish, decay, crumble.

Relapse

Verb: relapse, lapse; fall back, slide back, sink back; return; retrograde; recidivate; fall off again.

Crosswords: Fall Off

The little insect was justWaiting for that diaper to fall off. (Three Men and a Baby; writing credit: Jim Cruickshank; James Orr)

You guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off. (The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy; writing credit: Douglas Adams; John Lloyd)

Look, Ed, you put anybody on television sixteen hours a day, and sooner or later they're going to fall off a table and land on a cat. (Edtv; writing credit: Émile Gaudreault; Sylvie Bouchard)

All you've got to know is this: right now the government of the United States is sitting on top of the Washington Monument, right on the very point, tilting right and left and ready to fall off and break up on the pavement. (Seven Days in May; writing credit: Fletcher Knebel; Charles W. Bailey II)

May the hair on his toes never fall off! (The Hobbit; writing credit: J.R.R. Tolkien; Romeo Muller)

We gon' rock it til the wheels fall off (The Next Episode; performing artist: Dr. Dre)

So before I fall off, momma said (Take Your Time; performing artist: HOT)

Just remember...if the world didn't suck, we'd all fall off. (references; author: unknown)

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Books

• Don't Fall Off the Teeter Totter (reference)

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Music

• All the Suits Began to Fall Off (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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The scabs will eventually fall off leaving marks on the skin that will become pitted scars. The patient is contagious to others until all of the scabs have fallen off. Credit: CDC.

The smallpox lesions, or pustules, will eventually form scabs that will fall off leaving marks on the skin. The patient is contagious to others until all of the scabs have fallen off. Credit: CDC.

If this infant survives, smallpox lesions, or pustules, will eventually form scabs that will fall off leaving marks on the skin. The patient is contagious to others until all of the scabs have fallen off. Credit: CDC.

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Health

Head lice do not live long if they fall off a person. (references)

When the area heals, the dead tissue and the ulcer fall off, leaving new, healthy tissue behind. (references)

These ticks could fall off without biting the animal and subsequently attach to and bite people inside the house. (references)

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Expressions using "fall off": fall off again ♦ To fall off. Additional references.

Albanian

pakësohem (decrease, diminish, drop off, dwindle, ease off, ease up, lessen, melt, peter out, recede, slip, wane, weaken, worsen), keqësohem (fall away, retrograde, retrogress, worsen), bie (abate, attach, attack, bang out, bite, blow over, break down, bring, burn down, chime, come a cropper, come down, crash, crash down, crumple, cut, decline, descend, devolve, drop, fall, fall on, finger, flake off, flop, give, go, go down, hoot, pitch, play, plunge, plunk, recede, sink, strike, subside, throw down, tumble). (various references)

Bulgarian 

оттеглям се (adjourn, back, back away, disengage, draw back, draw off, draw out, fall back, give back, give way to, pull back, recede, repair, retire, retreat, retrocede, retrograde, run out, scuttle, seclude, step down, withdraw), отпадам (drop out, faint, languish, sag, sink, wilt), окапвам (drop off, fall out, soil, spot), опадвам (drop off, fall away, fall out), падам (attach, come down, crash, descend, drop, drop off, fall, fall out, go down, hang, land, lapse, light, prang, ring down, roll off, set, settle, settle down, slip down, topple, tumble, tumble down). (various references)

Chinese 

脫落 (drop off; shed; fall off), 減弱 (to fall off, to weaken). (various references)

Czech

zmenšit se (abate, get small, shrink), spadnout (collapse, crash, drop, fall, fall down, fall over, go down, topple), klesat (be on the decline, decline, descend, drop, fall, go down, lose height, sink, subside, wane). (various references)

Danish

afsmalning (taper). (various references)

Dutch

verslechteren (accentuate, aggravate, decline, go back), uitvallen (abandon, collapse, fall, give up, go on the blink, malfunction, renounce, resign, tumble down), diameterverval (taper), afvallig worden (apostatize, fall, tumble down), afvallen (apostatize, desert, drop, drop out, fall, fall away, lose, lose flesh, lose in weight, secede, tumble down), achteruitgaan (decline, go back, go backwards, recede). (various references)

Esperanto

malpliboniĝi (decline, go back), defali (fall, tumble down). (various references)

Finnish

kapeneminen (taper). (various references)

French

plonger, défilement. (various references)

German

abfallen (apostatize, be left over, break away, climb down, decline, defect, drop away, drop off, fall, fall away, incline, secede, sink away, slope away, slope down, to apostatize, to fall off, to secede). (various references)

Greek 

μειώνομαι (drop, wane), μείωσις διαμέτρου κορμού από κάτω προς τα άνω (taper), λιγοστεύω (cut down, cut down on, drop away, drop off, make inroads into). (various references)

Hebrew 

ללכת ולפחות. (various references)

Hungarian

leesik (come off, drop off, have a fall, to come mucker, to drop off, to fall off, to plummet, to slump, to tumble). (various references)

Indonesian

rontok (deciduousis, drop off, shed), merontokkan (cause to shed). (various references)

Italian

volare (drive, fly, fly by, hie, hurry, pass quickly, pilot, scud, soar, speed), rastremazione (taper), peggiorare (aggravate, decline, deteriorate, exasperate, fall, get worse, go, go back, make worse, worsen), deperire (decay, decline, fall, go, go back, perish, waste away, wither), declinare (decline, deviate, differ, differ from, fall, go, go back, slope down, to deviate, verge, wane). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

転�'落ちる (to fall off, to tumble down). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

�"ろ�'おちる (to fall off, to tumble down). (various references)

Manx

tuittym (abate, befall, cadence, cadence of voice, calming, collapse, come off, crumple, decline, depreciate; abatement, depreciation, descend, die down, droop, drop fall, fall out, fall over, falling, falter, flounder, floundering, founder, go down, incidence, keel over, lapse, overbalance, sag, slump, subside, subsidence, tip over, topple, tumble, waver, waver of courage, wavering), treigeilys (abandonment, betrayal, defection, dereliction, desertion, tergiveration). (various references)

Pig Latin

allfay offay

Portuguese

cairdoalto (tumble down), adelgaçamento (taper). (various references)

Romanian

se micşora (contract, decline, diminish, dwindle, ease, fail, fall, fall away, flag, grow less, grow smaller, lessen, shrink, shrink away), se desprinde (come off, come undone, fall), descreşte (abate, Bate, decline, decrease, dewindle, diminish, fall, flag, grow, lessen, shorten, sink, subside, wane). (various references)

Russian 

отваливаться. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

spasti (save), smanjiti se (abate, drop off), otpasti (drop off), opasti (ebb, fall out, go down, slump, subside). (various references)

Spanish

desmejorarse (decline, go back, impair, weaken, worsen). (various references)

Swedish

falla av (chance, come down, droop, drop off, happen), ramla ner från, minska (abate, allay, curtail, decrease, degrade, descend, detract from, diminish, ease, extenuate, fine away, fine down, go down, lapse, lessen, let up, lower, put down, reduce, sag, shrink, sink, slacken, step down, subside, wane), gå ner (descend, down, get down, go down, reduce, set), avta (abate, decrease, diminish, drop off, ease, ebb, fail, fall, fall away, lessen, let up, lower, moderate, slacken, tail away, wane), avsmalning (taper). (various references)

Turkish

terketmek (cede, desert, desolate, discard, disuse, ditch, expose, flee, forsake, jack in, jilt, leave, relinquish, revolt from, throw over, void, walk away, walk on, walk out of, walk out on), eskisi gibi olmamak, değişmiş olmak, damlamak (blow in, come in suddenly, dribble, drip, drop, drop around, drop in, happen in, trickle, weep), düşmek (behoove, behove, collapse, come down, come down in the world, crash, crumble, crumple, crumple up, decline, decrease, deduct, degrade, dive, droop, drop, drop down, drop off, ebb, end up, fall, fall among, fall down, fall from, fall in a heap, fall on, fall on evil days, fall over, go down, land, lapse, pitch, plonk, plunge, plunk, recede, rest with, sag, scale down, sink, sink into, step down, subside into, take a toss, tumble, tumble down), dökülmek (be poured, come off, course, disembogue, disgorge, drape, empty, fall, fall into, fall into decay, fall out, feel cheap, flow, go to pieces, molder, moulder, Peel, peel off, pour, pour forth, pour out, rub off, run down, slop over, spill, teem, trail), azalmak (abate, be on the wane, be reduced, decay, decline, decrease, de-escalate, diminish, dive, drop off, dwindle, ease off, fall away, lessen, run short of, run short of smth., sag, scale down, shorten, shrink, sink, tail, wane, wear away). (various references)

Turkmen 

hopmak (fall in), gopmak (fall out). (various references)

Ukrainian

відпадати, зменшуватися (abate, decline, decrease, dispeople, drop across, drop off, ease, ease off, turn down), занепадати (decay, decline, degrade, eclipse). (various references)

degenero, frixit. (various references)

afeallan. (various references)

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

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: falloff.

-2 letters: offal.

-3 letters: fall, foal, loaf, olla.

-4 letters: aff, all, oaf, off.

-5 letters: al, fa, la, lo, of.

+1 letter: falloffs.