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Fall away

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To cease to support a person or cause. intransitive

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

  2. 2
    diminish in size or intensity wordnet
  3. 3
    To diminish in size, weight, or intensity. intransitive

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

  4. 4
    fall to a lower standard wordnet
  5. 5
    To perish; to vanish; to be lost. intransitive

    "How […] can the soul […] fall away into nothing?"

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  1. 6
    To slope downward. intransitive

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