free fall

Speech parts

1. free fall - Noun

2. free fall - Verb

Meaning

a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity

the ideal falling motion of something subject only to a gravitational field

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free-fall

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Examples

Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a free fall. Randall Terry

I was so, so lost and unhappy. If you listen to the songs on the first album, you can hear it. They're really sad songs and they come from a lonely place. The relationship broke up, and I went into free fall. I saw drugs as a way of avoiding...the darkness. Pete Doherty

There are people who have too much space between their ears, and given the time, do nothing but free fall forever inside their head. It's a spooky thing to be left alone inside an angry inner-verse. James St. James

I was a pilot and flying hang gliders, paragliders, aerobatics airplanes, and then I discovered skydiving. Free fall. Free. With nothing around you, just a parachute on your back. And you go down. But you don't feel like you're going down. Total freedom. Yves Rossy

I wanna glide down over Mulholland. I wanna write her name in the sky. Gonna free fall out into nothing. Gonna leave this world for a while. Tom Petty

a drop of 57 points on the Dow Jones index Source: Internet

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