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Verb
S:
(v)
slip
,
drop off
,
drop away
,
fall away
(get worse)
"My grades are slipping"
direct troponym
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full troponym
S:
(v)
lapse
,
backslide
(drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards)
direct hypernym
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inherited hypernym
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sister term
derivationally related form
sentence frame
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
S:
(v)
fall off
,
fall away
(diminish in size or intensity)
direct hypernym
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inherited hypernym
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sister term
S:
(v)
disappear
,
vanish
,
go away
(get lost, as without warning or explanation)
"He disappeared without a trace"
S:
(v)
fall off
,
fall away
(diminish in size or intensity)
S:
(v)
fall
(go as if by falling)
"Grief fell from our hearts"
S:
(v)
die
(disappear or come to an end)
"Their anger died"; "My secret will die with me!"
S:
(v)
go
(be abolished or discarded)
"These ugly billboards have to go!"; "These luxuries all had to go under the Khmer Rouge"
S:
(v)
absent
,
remove
(go away or leave)
"He absented himself"
S:
(v)
evanesce
,
fade
,
blow over
,
pass off
,
fleet
,
pass
(disappear gradually)
"The pain eventually passed off"
S:
(v)
fade
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wither
(lose freshness, vigor, or vitality)
"Her bloom was fading"
S:
(v)
skip town
,
take a powder
(disappear without notifying anyone (idiom))
S:
(v)
die out
,
die off
(become extinct)
"Dinosaurs died out"
S:
(v)
desorb
(go away from the surface to which (a substance) is adsorbed)
derivationally related form
sentence frame