if land falls away, it slopes down suddenly from a particular point
if something falls away, it breaks off from the thing it was fixed to
if something such as a sound or feeling falls away, it becomes weaker and disappears
to become smaller or lower in amount, level, value etc
I inched away from her, and she let her hand fall away from my leg.
Plaster was falling away from the walls.
Sales have fallen away sharply.
She beat on the rock floor with her fist and felt a chunk crumble off and fall away below.
They heard it splashing over a fall away among the shadows on their right.
When the lights on the shores began to fall away, the sheriff spoke abruptly.
falls away
falling away
fell away
fallen away
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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