fall away

1. 1.

   get worse

   “My grades are slipping”

   Synonymsslipdrop offdrop away

   Broaderworsen

   Narrowerlapse
2. 2.

   diminish in size or intensity

   Synonymsfall off

   Broaderdisappear

Questions about fall away

What does fall away mean?

fall away means "get worse". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for fall away?

Close synonyms include slip, drop off, drop away, fall off. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fall away a common word?

fall away is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.