fall away

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fall away

verb falls away · falling away · fell away · fallen away

  1. intransitive To cease to support a person or cause. After the divorce, all his friends fell away one by one.
  2. intransitive To diminish in size, weight, or intensity. One colour falls away by just degrees, and another rises insensibly.
  3. intransitive To perish; to vanish; to be lost. How […] can the soul […] fall away into nothing?
  4. intransitive To slope downward.

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