Falling-out meaning

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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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(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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Present participle of fall out.
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Falling-out Sentence Examples

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

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

  • From falling out of carriages during the running of trains .

  • Another sudden change took place a few years later, James falling out of humour with the church on the question of the restoration of the Roman Catholic lords and angered by the free criticism of some of the ministers.

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