falling

verbal noun of fall

Noun

  1. verbal noun of fall
    • Epilepsies, or fallings and reelings, and beastly vomitings. The least of these, even when the tongue begins to be untied, is a degree of drunkenness. - 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […],...

Forms

fallings

Derived

downfalling falling asleep falling axe falling-off falling of the leaf falling of the womb falling rope falling saw falling-short falling sickness falling weather falling wedge infalling intelligent falling off-falling outfalling

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of fall
    • a falling leaf
    • the falling prices of luxury goods
    • Of these, nine were on the Forfar-Perth section, eight were over the sharply-falling grades from Gleneagles to Perth, [...]. - 1941 March, “Notes and News: Fastest Runs in Scotland, 1940 and 1941”, in Railway Magazine,...

Derived

deviation of a falling body downfalling everfalling falling action falling band falling collar falling diphthong falling-disease falling-door falling dunes falling-evil falling factorial falling film evaporator falling front or back falling-gate falling-hinge falling houses falling-ill falling-in falling knife falling leaf falling limb fallingly falling-mold