Perhaps the past tense of the word would be more applicable here.
For the past 4 weekends, we've been raking (we have 30-something trees). After nearly 100 highly compressed lawn bags, we are nearing the end. All the trees are bare except for this one mulberry and one medium size oak tree.
Well the mulberry held on tightly until this past Friday. Then, within 24 hours, it let go of everything. It rained leaves at a steady rate.
One more weekend to collect the stragglers then off to better things