Meaning of fall away | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To cease to support a person or cause.
   intransitive
2. To diminish in size, weight, or intensity.
   intransitive
3. To perish; to vanish; to be lost.
   intransitive
4. To slope downward.
   intransitive

Equivalents

Examples

“After the divorce, all his friends fell away one by one.”

“These […] for a while believe⟳, and in time of temptation fall⟳ away.”

“My "ex"es include⟳ both practicing and fallen-away Catholics and Jews.”

“One colour falls away by just degrees, and another rises insensibly.”

“While long-distance and commuter rail travel⟳ still fared well, train⟳ travel⟳ to seaside resorts was perhaps inevitably falling away.”

“The power off, the engine noise falls away as we roll east under an odd mixture of old and new bridges.”

“How […] can the soul […] fall⟳ away into nothing?”

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