freefall
Speech parts
1. freefall - Noun
2. freefall - Verb
Meaning
(physics) The state of being in a motion affected by no acceleration (force) other than that provided by gravity.
(common usage) The state of falling with no interference from outside forces other than the air resistance (no open parachute, etc.)
(by extension) The state of worsening out of control.
As civil war continues in Iraq, the U.S. president's approval ratings are in freefall.
freefall (third-person singular simple present freefalls, present participle freefalling, simple past freefell, past participle freefallen)
To drop in a state of freefall.
A base jumper attempts to freefall for as long as possible before triggering the parachute.
Synonyms
Examples
The truth is I made a few good movies in the '50s, then went into freefall.
All love stories are tales of beginnings. When we talk about falling in love, we go to the beginning, to pinpoint the moment of freefall.
When you freefall for 7,000 feet it doesn't feel like you're falling: it feels like you're floating, a bit like scuba diving.
I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
I love a challenge, and trying to become the first person to break the speed of sound in freefall is a challenge like no other.
1960–1970 Cinema in crisis Klaus Kinski In the late 1950s, the growth in cinema attendance of the preceding decade first stagnated and then went into freefall throughout the 1960s.