FALL OFF

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does fall off mean? 

• FALL OFF (verb)
  The verb FALL OFF has 3 senses:

1. come off

2. fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly

3. diminish in size or intensity

  Familiarity information: FALL OFF used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FALL OFF (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Come off

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

This button had fallen off

Hypernyms (to "fall off" is one way to...):

come away; come off; detach (come to be detached)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 2

Meaning:

Fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

fall off; sink; slump

Context example:

The real estate market fell off

Hypernyms (to "fall off" is one way to...):

drop (go down in value)

Verb group:

drop; drop down; sink (fall or descend to a lower place or level)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sentence example:

The stock market is going to fall off

Derivation:

falloff (a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Diminish in size or intensity

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

fall away; fall off

Hypernyms (to "fall off" is one way to...):

disappear; go away; vanish (get lost, as without warning or explanation)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

falloff (a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality)

 Context examples 

Is not that the place where an object upon the roof might be expected to fall off?

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Love will make you show your heart one day, and then the rough burr will fall off.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Then the cat said, “Take me with you,” Chanticleer said, “With all my heart: get up behind, and be sure you do not fall off.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The Ghost clung on close to the wind and betrayed no inclination to fall off broadside to the trough.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

In time my eyes gradually shut up; and, from seeming to hear the clergyman singing a drowsy song in the heat, I hear nothing, until I fall off the seat with a crash, and am taken out, more dead than alive, by Peggotty.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)