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fall·ing off

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. slump, slack, drop-off, falloff, falling offnoun

    a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality

    "the team went into a slump"; "a gradual slack in output"; "a drop-off in attendance"; "a falloff in quality"

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  1. falling off

    Falling off refers to a decline, decrease, or deterioration in quality, quantity, intensity, or value of something. It can also denote physically dropping or descending from a higher point or level to a lower one. In more abstract terms, it could mean the diminishing of certain behavior, performance, output, popularity or interest over a period of time.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. falling off

    The opposite of griping, or coming up to the wind; it is the movement or direction of the ship's head to leeward of the point whither it was lately directed, particularly when she sails near the wind, or lies by. Also, the angle contained between her nearest approach to the direction of the wind, and her furthest declination from it when trying.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of falling off in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of falling off in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of falling off in a Sentence

  1. Brian Church:

    Once you get to mid-fifties, things start falling off, your reflexes are not as sharp as they were when you were younger.

  2. Emily Pettersson:

    [The dolphin’s] fin was mangled, you could see it was falling off and it had a bite mark on the side of the body as well.

  3. Bam Margera:

    I did not know that I had gnarly Covid and my body was shutting down. I went into four seizures, each one lasting 10 to 20 minutes. On the fourth one I bit my tongue so hard it was nearly falling off. It got so swollen and puffy it wouldn’t fit in my mouth. I was drinking the infected blood, which gave me pneumonia, as well. i went to the hospital and had my fifth seizure and then couldn’t breathe without a tube down my throat. I woke up five days later thinking I was there for just a couple hours. I spent eight days in there.

  4. The Dane:

    Broke my hand after falling off my bicycle. Better stick to four wheels.

  5. Eric Green:

    This data has periodically proved to be very lumpy and the sharp deceleration is inconsistent with other measures of wage inflation that are trending higher, not falling off a cliff.

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