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fall away
verb
(of friendship) to be withdrawn
to slope down
Idioms and Phrases
Also, fall off . Withdraw one's friendship, support, or allegiance. For example, After the divorce, her friends slowly fell away . [Early 1500s]
Also, fall off . Gradually decline in size or strength, as in The breeze slowly fell away , or, as Shakespeare put it ( King Lear , 1:2): “Love cools, friendship falls off, Brothers divide.” [Early 1500s]
Drift from an established faith, cause, or principles. For example, I fell away from the Catholic Church when I was a teenager . [Early 1500]
Example Sentences
Brazil's footballing dominance has fallen away in the last two decades.
While Skype fell away in recent years, it still had millions of users - with the website Statista stating it had almost 28 million as of March last year.
As politics begins to move at social media speed, who's to say Reform cannot fall away as fast as they rose?
I get the clear sense that she was raised to allow people in but also keeps a safe psychic distance, a spiritual boundary that, when respected, falls away.
Having already fallen away in the WSL title race, the dramatic circumstances surrounding forward Kelly's exit in January raised eyebrows.
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