falling

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔːlɪŋ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔlɪŋ/
• (cot–caught merger) enPR: fälʹĭng,IPA^(key): /ˈfɑlɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔːlɪŋ

falling

1. present participle and gerund of fall

   a falling leaf

   the falling prices of luxury goods

   • 1941 March, “Notes and News: Fastest Runs in Scotland, 1940 and 1941”, in Railway Magazine, page 130:

     Of these, nine were on the Forfar-Perth section, eight were over the sharply-falling grades from Gleneagles to Perth, [...].

falling (usually uncountable, plural fallings)

1. verbal noun of fall
   • 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC:

     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.

• “falling”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.