fall off
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.06 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "A button fell off my coat."
- "Dorothy stood up and found she was in her stocking-feet. For the Silver Shoes had fallen off in her flight through the air, and were lost forever in the desert."
- "There were, however, 34 deaths among passengers in movement accidents, due mainly to misadventure and carelessness when entering and leaving trains in motion, falling off platforms and out of carriages, and opening and closing carriage doors."
- "Business always falls off in the winter."
- "MC ___'s new album is wack - he's fallen off big-time."
- "With the advent of motor bus services, traffic on the Rosebush line fell off to such an extent that it was decided to withdraw the passenger trains in the autumn of 1937."
Etymology
From fall + off; and also dissimilated from Middle English offallen (“to destroy, defeat, ruin, fail”), from Old English offeallan (“to fall upon, destroy”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: offallen, offeallan