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Falling-out definition

fôlĭng-out
fallings-out
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A disagreement or quarrel that causes a breach between persons formerly close.
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A disagreement; a quarrel.

A falling-out among family members.

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Falling out is defined as a disagreement or something that causes two people to no longer be friendly with one another.

An example of a falling out is when two sisters fight over their inheritance and stop speaking to each other.

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Alternative form of falling out.
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Present participle of fall out.
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(idiomatic) A rift between people or groups, often following a disagreement or quarrel.

Since the falling out with his neighbor they have kept their distance.

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Noun

Singular:
falling-out
Plural:
fallings-out

Falling-out Sentence Examples

  • They'd had a falling out a few hundred years before and hadn't spoken since.

  • After falling out of favor during the 20th century, breastfeeding has made a comeback, and rightly so.

  • It wasn't until J.R. became involved with Babe that father and son truly had a falling out.

  • Such profound changes must necessarily have been accompanied by enormous elimination; the migrating hosts were perpetually thinned by falling out on the way.

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