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verb
To go from a more erect posture to a less erect posture
Synonyms: slumping, dwindling, expending, sinking, diminishing, falling, spending, declining
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verb
To cause to descend
Synonyms: lowering, depressing
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verb
To come to the ground suddenly and involuntarily
Synonyms: tumbling, toppling, spilling, plunging, pitching, falling
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verb
To move downward in response to gravity
Synonyms: falling, descending
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verb
Let or cause to fall in drops
Synonyms: dripping, trickling, sinking, hailing, weeping, plumping, plashing, snowing, dribbling, splashing, bleeding, filtering, draining, seeping, emanating, percolating, oozing, leaking, descending, falling
Antonyms: rising, pouring, squirting, spurting, lifting
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verb
To end the employment or service of
Synonyms: sacking, canning, bouncing, booting, firing, ax, terminating, releasing, dismissing, discharging, cashiering
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verb
Lower the pitch of (musical notes)
Synonyms: losing, flattening, shaking, ditching, repudiating, withdrawing, separating, divorcing, leaving, deserting, forsaking, cutting, snubbing, forfeiting
Antonyms: sharpening, welcoming, inviting
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verb
Hang freely
Synonyms: shedding, unloading, throwing, relinquishing, releasing, lowering, grounding, dumping, swinging, toppling, variegating, decking, flooring, trickling, terminating, depositing, stopping, speckling, slumping, sloping, downing, sinking, shooting, sacking, remitting, prostrating, discarding, plunging, plummeting, plopping, levelling, omitting, plumping, knocking, casting, intermitting, inclining, fumbling, forsaking, abandoning, flecking, loosening, falling, drooping, dripping, dribbling, dismissing, discontinuing, flattening, depressing, decreasing, dashing, collapsing, banishing, dangling
Antonyms: rising, ascending, elevating, mounting, raising
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verb
To cease living
Synonyms: croaking, succumbing, perishing, passing, going, expiring, dying, departing, demising, deceasing
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verb
Stop associating with
Synonyms: quitting, skipping, dismissing
Antonyms: continuing, pursuing, doing, mounting
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verb
To suddenly lose all health or strength
Synonyms: succumbing, cracking, collapsing, breaking
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verb
Grow worse
Synonyms: sinking, falling, collapsing, degenerating, pitching, deteriorating, dipping, descending, plummeting, declining, devolving
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verb
Leave or unload
Synonyms: omitting, discharging, overleaping, removing, overlooking, missing, eliminating, neglecting, unloading
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verb
To undergo a sharp, rapid descent in value or price
Synonyms: tumbling, slumping, skidding, sinking, plunging, plummeting, falling, diving
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adjective
Coming down freely under the influence of gravity
Synonyms: falling